>Same can't be said about Iraq, can it? Iraq got most of the weapons from the USSR. If you mean it's WMD, that was done by tricking the west by proclaiming th

>Same can't be said about Iraq, can it? Iraq got most of the weapons from the USSR. If you mean it's WMD, that was done by tricking the west by proclaiming that Iraq was going to be using chemicals used in WMD for non WMD uses. >What, 40 years of trade reliance didn't give you the insight into Xi Jinping you needed? You are correct that the west took a blind eye to the geopolitical goals and ambitions of China, however it started as a strategy in the cold war (counter balance to the USSR) to the naive view that trade of libertarians that free trade makes geopolitical interest go away and peace comes in.