A suicide bomber killed three Chinese teachers in Karachi Pakistan. Chinese citizens find themselves the same types of targets the Americans and the West have been. China and Pakistan are working together to deal with the “complicated” situation.
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As the Chinese continue to extend themselves into foreign enclaves, from Latin America to Africa, from Eastern Europe to Pakistan, they will increasingly become the targets of various factional groups willing to kill them rather than negotiate with them or submit to them.
China has come along rather late in the colonial version of Empire, where the soft power of the market coupled with strategic brutal violence was enough to keep the natives at bay. These are different times, and many of the lands China hopes to now de facto possess are long in the tooth in the colonial game, and even more than before willing to commit themselves to life or death struggles to avoid seeing the pattern of colonialization again.
