As a country with its own history of opposing Western imperialism, is there a kind of kinship between China and Qaddafi’s Libya? Reporting from Libya, correspondent Gu Di of China’s state-controlled Huanqiu advises the country about how to deal with the West going forward, and describes Qaddafi’s situation as a cautionary tale for other leaders: Don’t assume that making amends with the West will guarantee your safety.
For Huanqiu, Gu Di writes in part:
China, as a neutral party, should calmly analyze this very complex crisis and its consequences for the future. At this point it is very difficult to say how it will end. That’s because in the history of Western intervention in global affairs, there has never been an instance in which a country’s opposition received international legal backing for toppling their nation’s leadership – particularly one that had been improving its ties to the West.
it is part of a clash between Western countries with a history of colonialism and third world countries that have historically resisted colonialism.
In recent years, the West appeared to “bury the hatchet” with Qaddafi, so that they, too, could reap great rewards from Libya. Before the crisis, for example, Libya handed huge oil fields over to Western hands. Another example is the arms trade: while Libya had been historically dependent on Russian armaments, in recent years they had begun to deal with the West
Riveted by the question ‘how long can Qaddafi hold on,’ the world has neglected a very important fact: the people of Asia, Africa and Latin America are against the West’s call to wage war on Libya. … Qaddafi has made lots of concessions to the West, but hasn’t managed to avoid clashing with it yet again.
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