Has Richard Engel lost his mind?

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10. his problem may be

he is only looking at it from the Middle East point of view. And maybe it is true that there and in Africa the Chinese system looks better. After all it is a new and fresh approach for a people who live in regions that are not known to produce nations that take care of their citizens. Heck, China is actually investing heavily in Africa so I don't blame Africans at all on that front. But the thing is in other parts of the globe they aren't keen on duplicating the Chinese government system. Not in Europe, not in South America and for the most part not even in Asia.

The rub is that the crisis in Syria may have even been over months ago if China and Russia had not used their position in the UN Security Council to object to tougher and more direct action by outside nations. And that's the problem (or brilliance) of China. It will invest and stick it's nose in in order to get the resources of poorer nations but it does not lift a finger when military action may be needed to stop atrocities in those other countries. I don't see China doing something like France has done in Mali. Whether that's a good thing or bad depends on a person's point of view.