War and peace

In an article on Afghanistan (Weekend Herald, July 17) the suggestion is that China is the real enemy of the West in Afghanistan due to “its unrelenting quest for global domination” — the Soviet Union, Great Britain and the US having all failed to sort things out with force and heavy military intervention, causing mayhem and untold suffering in support of unstable regimes with questionable legitimacy and suffering from rampant corruption. The US-led military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq look like a total waste of life, money and time. How is it that when China comes in with loans and infrastructural upgrades of a country they are seeking global domination, and when the West seeks correction by sending in their war machines in faraway countries, it is an act of friendship and brotherhood?