It comes down to identifying dependencies and justifying the necessity of partnering with a regime with relatively diverse/relaxed human right policies. My PR

It comes down to identifying dependencies and justifying the necessity of partnering with a regime with relatively diverse/relaxed human right policies. My PR background tells me that this is a weighed decision - Condemning Kazakhstan will yield a considerable amount of media attention with very little opportunity cost. Whereas doing the same to China would get you fired as a PR professional.