China to Send 700 Combat Troops to South Sudan
The Guardian’s Africa correspondent David Smith reports that China will soon send 700 combat...
Dec 23, 2014
The Guardian’s Africa correspondent David Smith reports that China will soon send 700 combat...
May 25, 2014
Somini Sengupta at The New York Times reports that “China and Russia voted Thursday against...
Feb 18, 2014
After a year-long investigation, a United Nations panel handed a report to the UN Human Rights...
Aug 28, 2013
After the Syrian government’s alleged use of chemical weapons against rebels and civilians...
Jul 6, 2012
In February, Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council (UNSC) attempt to pressure the Assad regime’s forfeiture of power as violence escalated in the ongoing conflict in Syria. After the dual veto, the diplomatic...
Jun 22, 2012
Amid frustration at the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio—which The Guardian’s Jonathan Watts gloomily compared with a 1930s League of Nations assembly—a side meeting between Wen...
Oct 5, 2011
China and Russia have banded together to veto a UN Security Council Resolution calling for Syrian ruler Bashar Al-Assad to halt the Syrian government’s crackdown on protesters. From CNN: Russia and China blocked efforts of...
May 28, 2011
The Indian Prime Minister’s visit to Africa has prompted widespread analysis of an escalating strategic competition between the world’s two most populous nations. From The Economist: For all its elephantine weight,...
Jun 10, 2009
After North Korea launched nuclear tests in May, the UN Security Council are imposing stricter searches on cargo entering and exiting North Korea. From the Times: The major powers, including the United States and China, agreed...
Jun 9, 2009
As China is getting pressed for the recent North Korean nuclear missile tests as well as having two American journalists being sentenced for reporting on refugees in China, a South Korea representative is going to Beijing. From...
Jun 7, 2009
From Singapore’s The Straits Times: Japan pressed China on Sunday to take a tough stance on North Korea, saying anything but a ‘strong’ UN Security Council resolution in response to last month’s nuclear...
Jun 25, 2008
According to Jan Eliasson, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy to the Darfur region, negotiations aimed at ending the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan have stalled and neither the Sudanese government nor the rebel...