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thedregs · 01-15-2008, 03:14 AM

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Originally Posted by willravel

I'm just as disappointed in China as I am with my own government in their ignorant and immoral pursuit of oil at any cost.
Sudan is China's largest overseas oil project. China is Sudan's largest supplier of arms, according to a former Sudan government minister. Chinese-made tanks, fighter planes, bombers, helicopters, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades have intensified Sudan's two-decade-old north-south civil war.

China has used its veto at the UN Security Council to block moves to impose sanctions on Sudan unless it stops the fighting in Darfur.

Yeah, part of me really wants to believe that it's all hyperbole. After all, the figures are ridiculous - something like 400,000 dead and millions displaced. But the fact that these VBS guys manage to talk to primary sources who corroborate the allegations against China and the suspicious stance they're taking doesn't give such a great impression. I just wonder if the recent assassination of a US diplomat will give the conflict a higher profile. Perhaps that and the new craze for biofuels will see a possible decrease in their involvement? I don't know.