selling weapons to questionable countries is indeed a problem.
but it is really part of china's much larger foreign relations policies...
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china's policy has always been to not judge another country's internal affairs... this means they officially declares that they will be "closing an eye". this is the real conflicting point between sino-us foreign issues.
the US like other western power use their unwillingness to sell to "rogue state" to pressure those countries into either accepting western style governing or that they will not get military, economy, infrastructure or in short any kind of help. (at least from the government, NPO is free to help).
the above system fails when china is willing to assist...
why china does so and go against the west are for 2 reasons:
- it does not want western style government to dominate the rest of the world as it will lead to the same kind of pressure to be applied on china.
- it wants to improve international standing with the rest of the world as a credible and dependable supplier that does not use it's economic power politically.
and since those nation were able to gain assistance via china, they would be be pressured by western power, and therefore, western power feel that china is being uncooperative in promoting western ideas...
china cannot adopt democracy, the population distribution means that the one popular with farmers will win, and we will likely see a MORE communistic government in power... so unless the west adopt a more understanding view that "democracy is not a 1 fit all solution", china will continue to need to use the "close 1 eye" policy to maintain status quo.
it should be noted that china does not provide ONLY military sales. they also help build factories, railroad and infrastructure to help these countries grow. it also help china export some of it's labour force, lower china's unempolyment rate and improve chinese exposure to development project.
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do i even make sense? i am just talking crap here... :rofl:
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