After months of pressure from human rights groups, Steven Spielberg has decided to withdraw from his role organizing the Olympics opening ceremony. From Bloomberg: Director Steven Spielberg cut his ties with the Beijing Olympic...
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China on Wednesday denounced criticism of its peacekeepers in Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur, saying they were helpful to the peace process and should not be threatened. A group of Darfur rebels last week...
Read MoreFrom AP: Darfur rebels launched a brazen attack on Sudan’s oil fields days before peace talks are scheduled to be held with the government, kidnapping two foreign workers and giving Chinese and other oil companies a week to leave the country, a commander said Thursday. In the latest attempt by the rebel Justice and Equality […]
Read MoreMia Farrow, actress and Darfur activist, wrote an op-ed in Wall Street Journal: As Khartoum’s largest and closest business partner, China has provoked outrage from the international community for underwriting genocide in Darfur. In recent months, Beijing has responded with steadily increasing talk about its commitment to promoting peace in the region. But it has […]
Read MoreAfter months of taking heat for its no-strings aid to controversial African regimes, China’s looks as if its might be ready to get its hands dirty in the continent’s messiest conflict. From NPR: The Chinese government organized a reporters’ trip to an army base in central Henan province to see the People’s Liberation Army engineering […]
Read MoreThe Chinese government is defending its actions in Darfur and saying Western countries bear the same responsibility in the region: Liu Guijin, a former Chinese ambassador to Zimbabwe and South Africa, met Thursday with U.S. lawmakers and Bush administration officials to describe China’s efforts in a region where conflict has killed more than 200,000 people […]
Read MoreIn preparation for a meeting in Paris on Monday of key players in the Darfur crisis, China’s envoy to Sudan is traveling to Khartoum: China will send more than 200 troops to Sudan’s Darfur region to help a joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force, its special envoy said in Khartoum on Friday. “The government is […]
Read MoreAn update on the pressure on China to contribute to the peacekeeping mission in Darfur, from AP via The Boston Globe: China’s special envoy on Darfur said yester day that his country will seriously consider whether to send troops on a peacekeeping mission in the war-torn Sudanese region and insisted Beijing is doing its best […]
Read MoreFrom Guardian Unlimited, via Crisis Group’s website: In China, attitudes toward Darfur are evolving rapidly – so that instead of being part of the problem, it could play a significant role in the solution. As the Darfur crisis drags into its fourth year, with President Omar al-Bashir’s regime in Khartoum continuing to stare down international […]
Read MoreMia Farrow has written another op-ed in the Wall Street Journal (with Nobel Prize winner Jody Williams), this time holding Warren Buffett and PetroChina responsible for the violence in Darfur: Mr. Buffett points out that only PetroChina’s parent company, China National Petroleum Company (CNPC), operates in Sudan. Since subsidiaries generally do not have control over […]
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