China in Africa: Business is Business
"What China is perhaps not anticipating is how, when you embrace these terrible regimes, you eventually get tainted for it."
This from a pointy-headed pseudo-intellectual in California, regarding China's new trading interests in African countries. Apparently, China takes the position that "business is business," that that how other countries are run is none of its concern. How novel! Sounds like a policy Washington and Jefferson would have supported.
In any case, I don't think that a regime which killed between 20 and 60 million of its own citizens during the 20th Century is going to be worried about being "tainted" because they are buying oil from some penny-ante African strongman.
NYT link here (may require registration): China in Africa: All Trade, With No Political Baggage
This from a pointy-headed pseudo-intellectual in California, regarding China's new trading interests in African countries. Apparently, China takes the position that "business is business," that that how other countries are run is none of its concern. How novel! Sounds like a policy Washington and Jefferson would have supported.
In any case, I don't think that a regime which killed between 20 and 60 million of its own citizens during the 20th Century is going to be worried about being "tainted" because they are buying oil from some penny-ante African strongman.
NYT link here (may require registration): China in Africa: All Trade, With No Political Baggage
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