As US dithers over human rights, China opens its arms to Prabowo Subianto, the Indonesian defence minister with a chequered past

• The former special forces general Prabowo Subianto is barred from the US due to claims he was involved in rights abuses during the Suharto era
• But with China and Russia ready to do business with him, the US may have to balance his chequered past with his new-found importance