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Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:03:02 +0000

[...] As an interesting aside, here is Peter’s brother Christopher Hitchens on Beijing’s numerous client regimes and captive nations. [...]

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By: mike

mike — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:53:41 +0000

Nicky,

My best gues is that by “the embrace of China’ Hitchens is referring to China’s propensity for, as you put it, “indiscriminate trade” with governments that much of the rest of the world wants little to do with (unless it involves oil, such as the U.S./Venezuela relationship). China places no conditions on its trade other than to ask for some loyalty ( or to break of diplomatic relations with Taiwan) and in return, China makes no judgements on the conduct of their trading partners. This makes China and Burma a match made in…well, not quite heaven.

By: Nicky Cheese

Nicky Cheese — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:38:33 +0000

Hitchen’s refers to the “the embrace of China”. What I’m not getting the purpose of this “embrace”? Am I naive in asking if it is merely blind, indiscriminate trade? I’m assuming there is a larger strategic motive?