Due to the successful EU arms embargo, the PLA was forced to abandon projects such as the 022 Fact Attack Craft, Song/Yuan class submarines, Z9 and Z10 attack helicopters....the list is too large to go on. Joking aside, attempts to lifting the arms embargo by then presidents Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroder ended with no result as China passed the "Taiwan Anti-Secession" bill in March 2005.