Unfortunately what many of my countrymen fail to understand is that there are no free lunches. Everything comes at a price.
This "higher than mountains, deeper than oceans, sweeter than honey" that many Pakistanis have blindly accepted as some divine phrase that will summon free weapons and economic aid from China is in fact just some sentimental propaganda by the political leadership of both countries, though the Chinese people have not been so gullible.
In reality China is getting ALLOT from Pakistan and in return giving not the equivalent amount, and this doesn't make Chinese evil or bad, it just shows that they are very smart and actually look out for the interests of the Chinese nation. Chinese get to dump their mass produced cheap goods into Pakistani markets and thus destroy Pakistan's native industries, Chinese get access to major Pakistani transportation infrastructure like roads, railroads, ports, etc...
Pakistani leaders on the other hand have done a fine job plundering their own country and then selling it to the highest bidder, whether to America, Saudi or now China.
But there are no free lunches. Chinese offered us a tank at a certain price and we can't afford them, end of story. Maybe we need to start putting people into office who will actually negotiate better deals for Pakistan? And if democracy has failed to give Pakistan competent and patriotic leaders then maybe we need to try a different form of government that is actually based on merit and not on the votes of the easily manipulateable masses?
@Psychic @LeGenD @Taimur Khurram @Metanoia @PakSword
And this is what we did for the Americans and the Saudis, we gave more than they were willing to reciprocate and thus the conclusions we have all seen with regards to those "allies" of ours.
Instead of becoming sentimental we need to start approaching these relations from a realistic and practical standpoint.
