"China’s growing influence in Libya and beyond also did not help matters. Bilateral business engagements between China and Libya had already yielded close to US$7 billion at the time of going to war. As early as 2009, several infrastructural tenders had been awarded to over 20,000 Chinese conglomerates alone.
But to intervene in Libya, the West needed a plausible impetus. And what better way than to ride on the back of the popular uprisings which broke out in neighbouring Tunisia and Egypt early in the year!"....................READ MORE
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