Similarly, the Chinese government’s later, and quite sudden, about-face in recognizing the rebel Transitional National Council as Libya’s government aroused considerable sneering at home. After all, China spent valuable political capital to oppose NATO’s airstrikes at the beginning of the intervention, only to end up backing the forces that NATO helped bring to power.
与此类似，随后中国政府的态度突然来了一个大逆转，承认了国家过渡委员会为利比亚政府，国内一片哗然。毕竟，在北约干预之初，中国曾下了很大的政治血本反对北约的空袭，然而到了最后，却又支持在北约帮助下夺得政权的反对派。中国外交的功利主义和唯利是图尽显无疑。