I had a conversation with one of my Chinese co-workers about Qaddafi, and Chinese media had very negative things to say about him? Does anyone know the reason behind this?
I’ve never heard of that they largely had positive relations, westerners did largely exaggerate Libya and Chinese alliance, and made lots of claims about china selling them weapons even nuclear missiles, but China couldve vetoed the bombing at the UN but didn’t. However there was largely positive relations, they were a major trading partner of Libya. Libya is only a country of 6 million people though, it wouldn’t even be the in top ten cities of China. So they were friendly with qaddafi but pretty much immediately recognized the new government and started helping them with reconstruction and diplomatic efforts
There are still libs in China
Qaddafi at one point supported Taiwan independence? Which made no sense.
It was because Libya had close economic ties with Taiwan, especially in the later years it was iffy between Beijing and Libya. Important to remember that China could have vetoed the US at the UN and at least attempted to stop western military action but didn’t… Something like that would be way more likely today as the US now treats China as a threat and mortal enemy, but even then I doubt it unless Libya stopped diplomatic ties with Taiwan.
