7) Why the West isn’t blocking it
Another misconception is that Washington would automatically veto any Chinese-linked platform sale.
In practice:
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the priority is containment of escalation, not purity of supply chains,
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sanctioned theatres already limit Western leverage,
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and Pakistan remains a manageable, state-centric interlocutor compared to grey-market flows.
Stability beats leakage.
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