From AP: Chinese President Hu Jintao is in Africa bearing the usual gifts of money for soccer stadiums and interest-free loans. But he also has brought a new recognition of the downside of China’s aggressive quest for the continent’s resources. These include tensions over mounting trade imbalances, the practices of some Chinese investors and the […]
Read MoreFrom The China Confidential blog: Don’t believe the disinformation. Contrary to manipulated media reports, China has not changed its no-strings energy diplomacy toward Sudan. Sources say Beijing has no intention of using its powerful political and economic influence with the mass murdering, Islamist-leaning regime of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir to pressure it to stop the […]
Read MoreFrom BBC: Chinese President Hu Jintao has agreed on a series of economic deals in Sudan, which China has protected from UN sanctions over the Darfur conflict, from BBC: China announced an interest-free loan to build a new presidential palace, and said it would build two schools. China already buys most of Sudan’s oil. Mr […]
Read MoreStephanie Kleine-Ahlbrahndt and Andrew Small write in the International Herald Tribune about a crucial shift in China’s diplomacy, as seen in their recent actions toward Sudan and North Korea: China’s foreign policy transformation has been a while in the making. Its long-standing protection of the Sudanese regime was already unraveling during the China-Africa summit meeting […]
Read MoreFrom Bloomberg: Chinese President Hu Jintao will bring billions of dollars in investments and loans to eight African countries this week — his second trip to Africa in a year — in a bid to secure resources from oil to gold. He may also try to persuade Sudan’s Umar Hassan al-Bashir to accept UN peacekeepers […]
Read MoreWith the ongoing session of the United Nations General Assembly, observers are focusing on China’s increasing influence over a number of thorny issues facing the gathering. From a San Francisco Chronicle report about China’s relationship with Iran: With Iran’s nuclear enrichment program at the center of high-stakes multinational negotiations, China is in the awkward position […]
Read MoreFrom Time Magazine: You could almost hear the clock ticking last week as diplomats scrambled to find a solution to end the killing in Darfur, western Sudan… Amid the diplomatic flurry, and as evidence emerged of a new government offensive in Darfur ” Human Rights Watch says government planes indiscriminately bombed civilian-occupied villages in rebel-held […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post (link): In years past, the Chinese government’s poor human rights record was only a problem for you if you happened to be Chinese. But as China’s power and influence in Asia grow, its hostility toward human rights is becoming a problem for non-Chinese, too. Propelled mostly by economic opportunism, China is […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News (link): Russia and China say they will oppose UN sanctions against four Sudanese officials accused of involvement in continuing violence in Darfur. Russia’s UN envoy said the Security Council should delay sanctions until Sudan’s talks with Darfur rebels reach an African Union deadline of 30 April. The Chinese UN envoy also said […]
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