Taiwan should probably respond by ceasing shipments of computer chips and electronic parts to Europe, or at least France. I wonder how France would do without new computer parts. It really looks to me that France is simply using the concept of a unified Europe to further it own agenda. It's obvious that France will impose it's will and intimidate smaller nations in the union into supporting it's policies. We got a small glimpse of that when France threatened Poland politically when Poland supported the Iraq war. Essentially, France is using the European Union to increase it's global power, and fulfill it's aspirations of competing with the United States. Something that is apparently an obsession of Chirac. Maybe Chirac has visions of being the next Napoleon.