How come the US is friendly with China,but treats Cuba so miserable ?

jimbob

The U.S. (so the politicians believe) cannot afford NOT to be friendly to China - a huge emerging market, producers of low-cost consumer products, etc. So even though the Chinese are just as anti-democratic as the Cubans, even though the Chinese undoubtedly have a more horrific human rights record than Castro's Cuba, even though they meddle and interfere with Bush's interests in Central Asia, we give them a pass because we need China as much as China needs us.

Cuba, on the other hand, has very little to offer economically. So we can afford to play the bully, to assert our Monroe Doctrine dominance over the hemisphere and freeze out the Cubans in the hopes that Castro (or, more likely, the guy who comes after him) will fall from power and we can go back to making Cuba the pro-U.S. cheap-sugar-and-smokes satellite that it was for decades.

The GuruÂ®

China is the main supplier of just whatever you can think of to buy at Walmart..

so that explains..

slycye99

The Cubans have nothing to offer us

dababyispretty

cuban immigrants, and chinas nukes. thank you very much.

nicolette

POlitics my child politics, we kiss the tookus of those we want stuff from and we cant get what we want from EL CUBA. Fidel wont play along and he has said up yours to US one too many times. The president got his feelings hurt.

man of ape

the failure of the Bay Of Pigs

I HATE JESSICA

cuz china has a lot of people and if they would be helpful in are wars cuba just like nasty lol jk idk

hyacinth

we are still not over the bay of pigs

wmp55

Because the exiles in South Florida are one of the many crazy tails that wags the Republican dog.

PureSerendipity

China has a lot of potential in today's world. It's gonna be the next superpower, so the US wants to get on its good side.

lizannepret

its all about trade. china is the leading country in so many developments...and a country you don't want as a enemy...so keep them close

Jona

Market forces

Much larger Big Mac potential in China than Cuba

Remember the business of {sic North} America is business

eldeseo

its the biggest market in the world, think on something simple like shoe laces , how many of them they need....? its business....and in the other hand the radical Cuban American who live in Miami they will not have reason to exist if there is no "enemy".

the_freewheelin

The US foreign policy has been based on double standards since WW2. It's not based on principles, but on opportunism.

paris56

Because Castro out-witted the CIA by himself. He convinced the CIA that yes, he is a communist, but not a Marxist. He told them his brother is a Marxist, be he himself is not. That made him sound genuine. The CIA wanted Bastille (sp?) out as he became uncontrolablly corrupt like Noriega and Marcos did later. But since Castro went to West Point, then Law school at Georgetown (after a brief film career in hollywood) the CIA should've been able to figure out his true poltical beliefs. Papers, professors, classmates, buddies...? They should have known. He used the CIA to prop up his Marxist regime, and that made the CIA unhappy. It may have been the first of the CIA's long and well documented history of intelligence ineptness.

big d

because american doesn't want war with a soon to be superpower like china

DJM

Cuba has cigars
China is the manufacturing powerhouse of the world

China also has one of the most powerful armies in the world

Republicus

If we were to sit in on a conversation between Bush and the premier of China, I think we'd find that the U.S. is not friendly with China whatsoever. If anything, we ignore the fact that we fear each other. But I wouldn't say that is friendship.

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