Reprinted from Facebook (2018/02/15):
This map is instructive:
Relations with China and India are excellent. China is fast becoming a semi-ally. Korea relations are fine. Relations with Japan are frosty, but even they are less enthusiastic about serious sanctions than the West. The main reason for this is Japan’s not unfounded fear that Russia will get too close to China – a fear that the US, half a world away, isn’t obligated to share.
Singapore couldn’t care less for democratist claptrap and will be quite happy to steal London’s custom.
If the ban on duel-use technology exports is to be rigorously enforced, the main sources of advanced tech transfer (needed for modernization) will become China, possibly Korea, and various entrepots like Singapore and Hong Kong via front companies.
http://thediplomat.com/2014/07/why-asia-wont-sanction-russia-for-mh17/
