China …

Michael Danby erklaert treffend, warum China in Bezug auf den Iran solche Probleme macht. Es ist das Oel:

China can buy all the oil it wants on the international market, but the communist leaders don’t want China’s prosperity – and their own hold on power – to be dependent on a free market they don’t trust. They want control and certainty. They see the way to get these things is through deals with selected oil-exporting countries, preferably ones which are at political odds with Western powers, so that their need for friends and protectors is greater.China now gets 15% of its oil from Iran, and is Iran’s second-biggest customer after Japan.

China’s greed for secure oil imports and its willingness to deal with outlaw regimes to get these imports is causing a breakdown in the world’s only system for disciplining countries that endanger peace.