Congrats to Chinese for being elected vp in FATF.
Now whether the withdrawal of Chinese support was because of this election is another story. I doubt it was that important for the Chinese.
Anyway, one thing is for sure, we are betting a bit too much on China as an ally. True China has proven itself as a much more trustworthy partner than US, but the scenario is changing rapidly. We have repeated the same 50's era mistake.
The thing is even if let's say China does not veto the next SC vote on JEM, do you think we have a choice to reconsider our relationship with them? No our defense is now entirely dependent upon the imports and technical know how provided by the Chinese. Our indigenisation efforts are also totally dependent upon the Chinese willingness to share their expertise. And economy, well less said the better, I don't know if CPEC will actually push our economy or not but it surely has made it entirely dependent upon Chinese lenders.
Some geniuses often suggest that instead of going to IMF and World Bank we should borrow from ICBC, and we are. The thing is we are getting completely dependent on one partner, this will only backfire.
So Chinese know that Pakistan has no more choices, so yes they will support us but even if they don't we can't do much about it can we.
We need to improve our relationships with the West, this confrontational approach will only create more problems for us. At the same time we have to remove groups like JEM, JUD etc that are putting strains on our relationship with the our allies especially the Chinese, I mean they are in their rights to be agitated about having to use their veto power just to save one Maulana Masood Azhar.
And although this has become a cliche, but it is something that our people need to understand, countries have their relationships based on interests, just by calling someone your brother does not make it one. For a long time during Chinese isolation, we were their window to the West and hence the Henry Kissinger episode. Secondly we had a common enemy in India. Now Chinese are no longer isolated and India is more of a rival than an enemy for them now.
Of course it does not mean that our Chinese friends don't value our friendship or won't stand with us in our hour of need, but let's not strain our relationship by putting them in difficult diplomatic positions. We need more diplomatic partners and less enemies. We need to avoid confrontation at all cost, until we are economically, militarily and diplomatically at least as strong as Turkey is.
