Tag: Sudan

  • NYT Forgets to Look Past Hollywood in China-Sudan Story

    Helene Cooper writes in The New York Times: [I]n the past week, strange things have happened. A senior Chinese official, Zhai Jun, traveled to Sudan to push the Sudanese government to accept a United Nations peacekeeping force. Mr. Zhai even went all the way to Darfur and toured three refugee camps, a rare event for…

  • China, U.S. In Greater Accord Over Darfur

    The U.S. and Chinese governments have not seen eye to eye on the issue of the ongoing genocide in Darfur, Sudan. China, for one thing, gets a lot of oil from Sudan. The Chinese government, too, has strong incentives not to support military intervention when not welcomed by the government of Sudan. Though the Sudanese…