Sudan partition poses challenges for China
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JUBA — The looming partition of Sudan after this week’s independence vote in the south poses challenges for China, which faces dependence for nearly five percent of its oil imports on a new country long suspicious of its ties with Khartoum.
A full 80 percent of the oilfields in Sudan, which the state-run China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) has pumped billions of dollars into developing, lie in the south.
Beijing’s arms deals with the Khartoum regime and its dogged defence of it in international forums have resulted in the former rebels who are set to lead the new state having much closer relations with Western countries that provided aid during the 1983-2005 civil war and spearheaded efforts to end the conflict.
China did open a consulate in the southern regional capital Juba in 2008 three years after the peace deal..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110117com3.html
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