Their reasons also seem to have a pragmatic ring: they don’t want to cause North Korea to collapse by being too harsh; they fear losing influence in Burma to India or the United States; no one is doing much about Darfur, so to jeopardize the supply of Sudanese oil by pushing the regime in Khartoum appears futile. But pragmatism has its limits, particularly when it permits dangerous situations to fester.
目前为止，中国领导人还没有看到放弃不干涉的好处。他们的理由也好像颇为实际。他们不想过于严厉而让朝鲜崩溃；他们担心把对缅甸的影响力拱手让给印度或者美国；世界在达尔富尔问题上基本无所作为，所以冒着苏丹石油供应的风险来推动咯土穆政权看起来就是徒劳的。但是现实主义也有局限，特别是它让危险的局势恶化的时候。