With all the talk between Pakistan and China (actually, more of it coming from Pakistan) of being great friends and neighbors, one has to wonder if one day Pakistanis may wake up one day to find themselves part of an Autonomous Region that has always been part of China, according to Chinese revisionists. The Financial Times recently had an article detailing the great works China is performing in Pakistan to help India’s kissing cousin develop its military, its energy resources and its transportation infrastructure.
Of course, China’s alliance with Pakistan serves to poke a stick in America’s eye. The Americans have seen their credibility with the Pakistanis decrease nearly daily since the assasination of bin Laden. A closer relationship with Pakistan also helps China leverage negotiations with India on issues ranging from trade through territorial disputes.
Still, China may eventually rue the day it built the bed into which it crawled with a fundamentally fundamentalist, corrupt, poverty-stricken and unstable country. China’s prognostications of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries may undergo a major test when it finds Chinese merchants or engineers or even soldiers under fire from Islamic extremists.
Then, perhaps, China will begin to understand that with wealth and standing in the world comes commensurate responsibility and accountability.
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