ABSTRACT
China’s emerging foreign policy marches to this same drummer, and should come as no surprise to those familiar with Hu’s work in Tibet. Beijing’s direction is suggested by the fact that it has extended economic, strategic or diplomatic lifelines to nearly every rogue state in the world.3 Its close international friends have included Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, Pakistan’s Musharraf, Nepal’s King Gyanendra and Uzbekistan’s Islam Karimov.4 China helped Mugabe pull off his rigged election of 2005,5 and encouraged Karimov to stand his ground against international opprobrium after he ordered the Tiananmen-style slaughter at Andijan, killing hundreds of unarmed demonstrators.6 Both China and Russia endorsed Karimov’s version of this atrocity, and tripped over each other in their haste to sign new security treaties with him.7 No Western power could match them
1 “Hu Done It,” The Economist (September 23, 2004), https://economist.com/opinion/ PrinterFriendly.cfm? Story_ID=3220315.
