But, in recent years, China became an obstacle to Qaddafi’s African ambitions, and China did so by copying his methods: buying the support of dictators with weaponry and finance. Since 2000, China has actively courted Africa’s unstable and dictatorial countries with offers of aid and a refusal to back United Nations sanctions against them.
但近年中国逐渐成为卡扎菲非洲野心的一大障碍，何况还照搬了他的做法：用金钱和武器收买那些独裁者们。自2000年以来中国向非洲那些局势不稳和实施独裁的国家大献殷勤：一方面利用援助，另一方面承诺可以阻止联合国对这些国家实施制裁。事实上，中国正肆无忌惮地染指那些欧美出于制裁而不愿涉及的非洲国家交易。