US to seek China help to win peace in Darfur

[struggle4progress]

(Reuters)
6 January 2007

WASHINGTON - The US Special Envoy to Sudan will travel to Beijing next week to encourage Chinese officials to help ally Sudan to achieve peace in its volatile Darfur region, the State Department said on Friday.

Andrew Natsios will travel to China’s capital Jan. 8 to 12 to consult with senior Chinese officials and ‘encourage them to exercise their considerable influence on Sudan to achieve peace in Darfur,’ the statement said.

China has emerged as a major supporter of Sudan, supplying it with everything from oil industry equipment to arms, and importing Sudanese oil.

At least 200,000 people have died and more than 2.5 million have been driven from their homes in a conflict that has raged in Darfur since early 2003 ...

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[Jcrowley]

1. Wonder what that means

Who is "The US" and who is "China" in such articles. Is it the Chinese elites and the US paymasters?

And when they say "Win the Peace" do they mean "Stability in oil producing regions" to share in the loot?

[struggle4progress]

2. It means that the US was unwilling to play any role in Sudan and after ..

.. years of pleading by people everywhere, left and right, for action to end the conflict, the best the US could do was to say finally, Have at it, China

As far as geopolitical considerations go, Washington's petrocrats essentially bet-the-farm on permanent military bases and a continuing massive US presence in Iraq, from which (in the neocon fantasy) the US would project power over the Middle East and Northern Africa: everything has fallen by the wayside.

[ckramer]

7. It means China has better credentials than USA in Africa

It means US is not trusted by the locals.

[Porcupine]

3. Worst case: Chinese Troops

China has the available manpower to become the worlds policeman. The Chinese also have a deep understanding of how to supress ethnic tensions. Pray theat they do not get into world policeman role.

[teryang]

4. US objective - drive China out of Sudan

China doesn't import oil from Sudan - it owns 35 percent of the oil and pipeline concession. When the US forced Canada out of the oil/pipeline concession - China took its place. This was a CIA blunder of major proportions that was forced on the Clinton administration by government insiders.

[BayCityProgressive]

5. If China

sent troops would they convert Sudan into a Market-Socialist type state like themselves??

[teryang]

6. China isn't interested in exporting ideology

...they want the energy period. To achieve their economic objectives, they are very diplomatic. The US would have to be out of its mind to ask for Chinese troops in this part of Africa.