Arsalan
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Sir, I acknowledged that you are an exception in that you do come out and condemn this and other oppressive moves by China in this context. My point was the silence of rest of your otherwise vocal countrymen, which you agree with.
AND those of Israel, In fact, those of Israel are much more relevant to be mentioned as they are the ones on similar scale not the ones by KSA. Or, perhaps right here you did exactly what you called "paying price of friendship"Every nation pays a price for their interests. Nothing is free. US looks away oppression by KSA, it over-looked the fact that a majority of the 9/11 perpetrators were of Saudi origins.
Agree that putting all eggs in one basket is not wise, perhaps that is why you still see Pakistan still trading and have relations with lots of other countries. Our relations cannot be as strong as India's because you present a much larger market, also the fact that we have benefit trough perhaps the worst 6 7 years of our history and are just beginning to get up again cannot be ignored. Things are improving, with improving economy will come more diversified partnership opportunities. AS for paying price for our friendship with China, i don't think so, we have enjoyed decades of strong cordial relations, a win win for both countries and we have not been forced into things that were really destructive for us. You cannot compare US-Pakistan relation with Pak-China relation, in fact you cannot compare relation between any two nations with that of one with US because of the history of US Turing on friends, and, that is not a criticism. There leadership is so loyal and devoted and for them US always comes first!!This is small stuff, you have not even begun to pay the price for Chinese friendship though you have paid plenty of price for US friendship in helping them against the Soviets and war on terror. While its too early for such price to become evident viz-a-viz China, Pak is virtually entirely dependent on China and the dependence is only increasing.
Actually, this thread is mostly about Chinese oppression targeted towards Muslims, that, is a miss leading concept. It is not a specific anti Muslim attitude as you can see from various other examples.Anyway, this thread is mostly about regressive China, where we don't disagree, we can park the larger consequences of Pak dependence on China for some other thread. I am sure we'll have plenty of opportunity to discuss that particular topic.
Anyway, as you said, we can agree on a few things and disagree on others, that is how debate is. What is important is we respect the point of view of other.
regards!