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Is China repeating the mistakes of the United States in Pakistan?
South Asia Masala (2011)
  • Vikas Kumar
Abstract

The web security company McAfee’s recently concluded investigations seem to confirm the widely held belief that China is engaged in extensive cyber intelligence operations targeting other countries, particularly, the United States. And yet remarkably, China refuses to learn from common knowledge about the United States’ experience as the reigning global power. It is well-known that the United States’ foreign policy of using extremist Islamic regimes as proxies against the Soviet Union has boomeranged and has also caused extensive damage to the political economies of a number of countries in the Middle East and South Asia. Unfortunately, China refuses to learn from the United States’ experience in this regard. In its quest for greater power in the global arena, China is supporting regimes it would love to disappear when it reaches the summit. For instance, China is using Pakistan as a force multiplier in South Asia and in the process it is supporting a regime that will not turn law-abiding after China achieves its strategic goals.

Publication Date
October 5, 2011
Citation Information
Vikas Kumar. "Is China repeating the mistakes of the United States in Pakistan?" South Asia Masala (2011)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/vikas_kumar/93/