Some people are taking the isssue of Chinese ship carrying arms to Zimbabwe as posing a problem for China. I doubt it. It should pose an ethical problem for the United States, but I also doubt that it will be recognized as such.
The idea is supposed to be that the Chinese will be discomfited by the prospect of supplying arms to Mugabe after his regime has effectively been voted out of power. This ignores the simple fact that China has never had a problem dealing with Mugabe because there is nothing that Mugabe does to Zimbabweans that the Chinese government doesn't do to its own citizens. In spades. There isn't really even a pretense of democracy in China, so why should they be upset that Mugabe indulges in the pretense and then abrogates it.
This should be a problem for the United States. China is a world power today because we have decided to buy everything they can manufacture, which is most everything we consume. They have no political ethics that we would recognize. Thugs like Mugabe will stay in power because of our obsession with having our consumers goods at the least apparent cost. The situation would be a wakeup call. I'm not holding my breath.
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