WHAT'S UP BETWEEN US AND CHINA?

This has been bugging me for some time now, and I can’t seem to be able to wrap my head round it. It’s not that I’m seething at what I see as a blatant attempt by China to use Nigeria to bolster its energy security. What I’m frothing at the mouth for is the perfidious willingness of Nigerian officials, not the least the Office of the President, to even countenance any dialogue in this respect.
Why can’t we do business with China? You may ask. One reason is more than enough.
This is a country, like indeed many others in the world that a Nigerian life is not worth a tuppence, but cast a hungry look at our natural resources. Isn’t it only recently that China sought permission to cremate 30 of my fellow citizens (arrested on a myriad of charges) who had died in Chinese jails? Again, you may rightly ask, What about Libya, Saudi Arabia, and others too numerous to mention? Or even more valid would your question be if it had been, What about inside our own country? After all, charity begins at home. I agree with all of these questions and more, but would they be enough reason to abandon our own people abroad, where in a majority of cases they had no access to any legal representation.
Don’t even start to put forward the question about the duty of Nigerian embassies abroad, as they are just embassies in name only, they serve absolutely no useful purpose except to prepare the ground for visiting thieving Nigerian ‘politicians’ and officials and to renew/reissue passports with ample bribes. I dare any of them to issue a denial!
We should make it mandatory for any country wanting to do business with us to treat our people with deserved respect. Of course any Nigerian flouting any law in any country should expect to pay the price commensurate with the offence as stipulated in that country’s penal system.
The primary duty of a government is to protect its citizens, but this government like the ones before it, is failing in this most basic of duties.