Re: WHY USA ? WHY NOT CHINA?
I think with US every country on the world facing this dilemma, best is not be in bed with them or make them enemy either. best would be just keep them at arms length with bilateral relations. That it. friendship and enmity with USA is disaster in both cases.
being close to friends is always good specially the sincere ones like China. strategic level thinking will lead us only to have strong ties with regional powers, China, Russia and not throwing our weight only to US of A.
aid will not work for any country. a debt cancellation would have work better if some one is really want to help PAkistan.
US has influence and a year ago when the new govt need some funds, they specifically stopped all the friend countries not to help Pakistan at all. So it will have to re enter trap of IMF! which this govt did finally and we end up being in IMF trap once again and reliant on Aid again. as IMF prgrams doesnt help a country to establish it self but make it more reliant on loans and aid.
the day we start to think that Aids doesnt run countries, that will be good. specially these peanuts that kind of saving can be done with managing ourself better.
we providing resources to war of US, transit routes, airbases and other refuelling facilities to US and if we bill them, that will be much more than this AID altogether.
plus we fighting war with many elements came from post US invasion of Afghanistan to Pakistan. this war on terror also has effected our trade and industry. these should be raised with US to get some market access incentives for export and trade.
but instead of this, we out with bowl as we dont have visionary leadership at all. they are simply beggers. while hiding their wealth outside of Pakistan they expect others to help Pakistan!!