China has never really cared what the barbarians (i.e., non-Chinese) think of them. The current regime is also big on control - "Orwellian" fits some of their policies and practices. Add to that the fact that their first major contact with Fen was a completely unauthorized emigration of an entire passenger-trainload of their citizens in a way calculated to confuse and demoralize the authorities and you get a regime that's not going to be well-disposed to the Convention.
(Aside: I'm guessing the Kandor Treaty wasn't signed by the UN Security Council, since the Chinese have a veto there.)
Then consider that the Chinese are not stupid, and that the stereotypical East-Oriental opinions about honour and "face" apply just as well to the Chinese.
If we hadn't had Operation Great Justice to create a local villain group, China would have been the "big bad" of Fenspace from the Convention's point of view- and they would have been completely blameless from their own viewpoint.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
(Aside: I'm guessing the Kandor Treaty wasn't signed by the UN Security Council, since the Chinese have a veto there.)
Then consider that the Chinese are not stupid, and that the stereotypical East-Oriental opinions about honour and "face" apply just as well to the Chinese.
If we hadn't had Operation Great Justice to create a local villain group, China would have been the "big bad" of Fenspace from the Convention's point of view- and they would have been completely blameless from their own viewpoint.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012