What the hell does Darfur conflict have to do with China?

I've heard this mass hysteria that China is responsible for the 200000 to 400000 death during this conflict that was started in 1916 when Britain invaded Darfur which has caused damage and poor education system and poor health care to this region.





Western nations have told that China to stop the oil business with Sudan--yeah China should abandon it because West can get all the oil.





"The Chinese, we are told, have a moral responsibility to either pressure the Sudanese to let up on Darfur, or else abandon their Sudanese assets. As if Sudan were a Chinese colony, and the Sudanese authorities mere sock-puppets of Beijing."





If our professional do-gooders of the "progressive" persuasion are so concerned about the fate of Darfur, let them campaign for the granting of mass asylum to the survivors of this latest African catastrophe. Give them sanctuary and green cards, but keep U.S. troops out of Africa, specifically out of Darfur – %26amp; get off Beijing backs!

What the hell does Darfur conflict have to do with China?
It doesn't. But they are trying to diminish Chinese economic influence in Africa.





They don't want the oil to go to China alone.





Others complain about China buy oil and selling weapons, yet the largest arm dealer is United States and Russia by far.





China always hold the "non-interference" policy. They don't mess with other people's internal affair like the West do.





Why does people keep focusing on Darfur, Sudan when rest of the African countries like Somalia, DRC (Congo), Sierra Leone or Kenya has plenty of "genocides"? Because of China. They are using it as a leverage to criticize China.





*sigh*, there are too many sheeps out there.
Reply:If China does do something, it's gonna be accused of trying to spread Communism(bet!). China has been trading with Sudan long before this whole mess started, and they don't like being told what to do. Get over it, they're not gonna stop the trade. The African countries benefit too. Report It

Reply:Exactly what I was wondering! Probably some random connection someone made on Yahoo! Answers to sound smart.
Reply:Maybe its because China is Sudan's #1 purchaser of oil and #1 supplier of weapons?





China's trading guns for oil, guns that are being used to commit genocide in Darfur, and China's perfectly content to let it happen as long as their engines of progress stay fueled.





It has nothing to do with colonialism or sovereignty, its the moral authority of China to use its economic influence with Sudan to pressure them to relieve the humanitarian condition in Darfur. Something they're unwilling to do.





And granting asylum to everyone in Darfur would just be basically allowing the Janjaweed to complete their ethnic cleansing.





edit: Russia isnt buying Sudan's oil. Russia cant say "Fix it, or we'll stop buying your oil", but China can. That gives China more influence, and more responsibility to not be complacent. And when Tibetans start firing rockets into downtown Beijing and blowing themselves up in Chinese nightclubs, then you can start comparing China to Israel. Tibet and the Dalai Lama are about THE most ridiculous adversary to try and demonize as violent insurgents, you might as well say the Pope is running guns to them too.
Reply:Why does China airbrush away Darfur's genocidal realities? Why has Beijing been Khartoum's largest weapons supplier over the past decade? Why has China repeatedly wielded a veto threat at the UN Security Council as the world body vainly struggles to bring pressure to bear on Khartoum? The answer lies in China's thirst for Sudanese crude oil.





Since the beginning of serious oil development in the 1990s, China has been the dominant player in an oil production consortium located mainly in southern Sudan. China was also complicit in the scorched-earth clearances that were part of oil development until the north-south peace agreement of 2005. What China got for its ruthlessness was prime access to the 500,000 barrels of crude that Sudan now produces daily. Given the voracious growth in China's oil consumption, Beijing has determined that ignoring gross human rights abuses in Sudan is simply a cost of doing business.





This is why China has offered unstinting diplomatic protection to Khartoum, most consequentially at the Security Council. And now in defense of this destructive protectionist policy, China offers up deliberate distortions of Darfur's terrible truths. Thus Khartoum's adamant refusal to accept desperately needed non-African troops and specialists for a UN-authorized peace support operation becomes a mere "technical" problem, according to Liu Guijin, China's Darfur envoy. But this is false. The regime's refusal to accept the UN-proposed roster of troop-contributing countries has largely paralyzed deployment of the UN/African Union Mission in Darfur, authorized by the Security Council last July. Britain's UN ambassador spoke for many when he declared this year that Khartoum had made a "political decision" to obstruct the deployment. China blames the "international community" for not pressuring rebel groups in Darfur to negotiate an end to the conflict. While there is some justification to this charge, the real problem lies in China's refusal to countenance sanctions that might pressure Khartoum to engage in good-faith diplomacy. China will not allow even targeted sanctions against regime officials most responsible for flagrant violations of international humanitarian law.

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