They should have listened to the Chinese and applied Chinese methodologies to control the virus. But no, they treasure their little precious "freedom"!
As a soldier you have to carry some sort of "weapon", just in case, agreement or no agreement. If Chinese soldiers used spiked clubs to whack the Indians so be it. It's the winning that counts.
Why spend billions in helping the economies of these countries that are dead set on destroying China? So many of these foreign diplomas are not worth the papers they are printed on, simply overhyped and overvalued.