Nuclear Orientalism?

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/04/201341695253805841.html

The author raises a legitimate question but he also grossly undermines his own case by what he doesn't discuss.

If the only "oriental" states to go nuclear were North Korea and Iran, he'd have a fine argument. Unfortunately, he doesn't mention the existence of nuclear weapons programs in China, India, or Pakistan. The United States did not issue comparable--to those issued to North Korea or Iran--threats to any of those countries. We hardly  have had trade and banking sanctions against China since it went nuclear.

I would argue that this broader context suggests that the American problem with Iran and North Korea is, in fact, linked to our appreciation that they are unstable regimes, and not that they are "oriental."