OREANDA-NEWS. July 11, 2013. While America’s contentious foreign policy has been primarily directed at restraining Islamic extremism, with the puny support of its Western allies, and meaningless United Nations’ directives, the world’s No. 2 economic power, China, is gaining increasing control over the oil production of U.S.-liberated Iraq, and the economic sanctions- restrained Iranians. Between these second and third most prolific world oil producers, Beijing has gained access to a still growing potential of four million barrels a day.

With an eye toward 2050, when the Chinese expect to have become the world’s Number 1 economic gross domestic product leader, the visionary Chinese are battening down the hatches of direct energy control through oil production ownership or unbreakable contracts. The authoritarian super state is rapidly on the way to building a world-class Navy to protect the sea lanes and project its potential military power, primarily in West Africa and its control over investment with new energy partners in the Middle East.

Consequently, China’s global foreign policy, like the Russian model, is amoral at best. Instead of wasting its treasure and military capability on “guaranteed democracy” in a once colonized Mideast and African nations that reject their once Western “masters,” the expanding Chinese economic giant focuses on treating their new-found brothers with “feigned” respect. They do this by sending into their areas of interest literally thousands of experts and workers, taking no issue with their host nations’ foreign policy and customs, and making no excessive demands for their services.

Like Russia, China also “protects” the world’s “evil empires” like Iran by casting its Security Council vetoes to protect them from U.S.-led punitive action. They are thereby robbing the West of legitimacy of arbitrary action when the U.S., U.K., Canada or like-minded nations believe that military force, like America’s ill-fated escapades into Iraq and Afghanistan, are called for.

Although China’s global policies are as “Imperialistic” as their European colonialist predecessors, the Islamic Middle East, and African dictatorships welcome them as “brothers,” having also presumably suffered under the heel of the White-Western European boot. Not being bothered by such incidentals as “humanism,” the Chinese are taking full advantage of their fraternal welcome and are making the most of their cleverly-crafted respectability.