Jean-Louis Couturier wrote:
>
> De : Julia Thompson [mailto:julia@;zurg.net]
> > I haven't been reading the WSJ editorial page much recently, but my
> > husband has, and he's seen a fair bit of the following as of late:
> >
> >1) Arguments that France shouldn't be a permanent member of the UN
> >Security Council.
> >
> >2) Arguments for a somewhat new set of permanent UNSC members: US,
> >Russia, China, India and Japan.
>
> How is Japan more important than the EU, especially security wise?
I think the argument went along the lines of, no *single* European
country has an economy as big as Japan's. (As I say, I haven't read the
columns, just heard about them from my husband.) Population has
something to do with the criteria, as well.
Now, various columns argue for the removal of France, but they don't
argue for the removal of the UK, the UK just gets left off of the new
suggested list.
I'm not sure that the columns are written by the same person, either,
but there is a trend that has been noted by one observer who reads that
page of the WSJ on a regular basis.
Julia
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