"China To Deploy Troops To South Sudan" Topic

"China is sending hundreds of troops to join the U.N. peacekeeping force in war-torn South Sudan, where Chinese companies have major oil interests.

Comments from China's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday followed a report in the Wall Street Journal that said China was deploying troops to protect South Sudanese oil fields and the Chinese workers and installations around them.

Responding to reporters' questions, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying made no mention of oil or Chinese companies, saying China's "goal is to strictly follow the mandate of the U.N. Security Council and promote construction of the region."…"
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Armand

Oh, now they want to help!

Dan. :)

Will they be deploying troops to American WalMarts to protect their markets?

Can't blame them. They don't want a repeat of the 2013 Algerian hostage crisis happening to their vulnerable assets in Sudan.

I'm guessing their peace keeping mission is going to be more on their terms than those of the UN.

Bet North Sudan will be chuffed.

The spice must flow!

And the West who can't make such canny maneuvers like this anymore.
Tell you what, I see a escalation in SS because somebody been out maneuvered 'again'
Oh and on the gaming front, anyone have any ideas as to PLA kit for deserts? And who else is in SS and does China have any interests in North Sudan? Is this a 2 for? Are they playing a better game of Maoyong than the UN and the rest involved.
As the world turns Cheers

China has quite a few investments in Africa lately.

There was a show on last year about these dumb Americans trying to mine in West Africa. The problem they kept running into was that illegal Chinese mining operations were already going on. The natives would just shrug and say the Chinese have lots of guns and shoot first.

Just illustrates that Africa is well on its way to being a mere chinese supply depot of raw resources. While in East Africa the Chinese are buying all the land for cultivation and shipping the crops home. The saddest thing is the Chinese wont even use African labor. They ship in Chinese laborious and guards.

The Africans generally prefer the Chinese, since the Chinese have been very honest about what they want, why they want it, and what they are willing to pay for it. Not to forget what those wages and other funds will likely do to the local economy…

Doubt it changes the local economy, All or if not most goes back to China.

LOL. So soon the Africans may even ask the Europeans to fight the new Colonials?

Actually, it seems like some individual Africans welcome their new overlords and stand to benefit from the "invasion":

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Dan

Actually, I've heard that China is using African labor for some things, since their people's wages are getting too expensive.

Yes, it appears that Africa really is rapidly becoming a Chinese colony.

There also doing a lot of deals in South America too, for resources. They appear to be very focused, and strategic minded, about resource acquisitions/deals, which will place them in a very advantageous position in the near future.

China has a number of advantages in dealing with Africa.
They do not hamper themselves with anti-bribery laws (or at least none they enforce). The US and EU now have strict and enforceable anti-bribery laws on the books, which are a major impediment to doing business in Africa.
They do not have any colonial baggage in Africa.
They do not tie aid or business deals to human rights or environmental requirements.
When bidding for infrastructure projects, they are cheaper than Western firms.
As LitS mentioned, this means that from the African pov, they are more honest about what they want and what they will pay for it, and they do not attach strings as the West is want to do.
As LitS

I forgot to mark on my calendar when we went from being scared of the Japanese ruling the world to the Chinese.

I'll just sit this one out and when we get to the Danish, ya'll can let me know.

对我来说我不怕。(Just speaking personally, I'm not scared.)
And I see nothing wrong with China joining UN operations.

American efforts to avoid war with the 'Mongols' failed and in 2109 AD, they attacked the US using fleets of airships armed with disintegrator rays. They attacked from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and down from Canada. After conquering the US and Canada, these 'Airlords of Han' ruled North America as a province of their world empire from fifteen great cities they established across the continent.

But the Han Empire will also fall apart, after taking over the world and pillaging it's resources for a couple of centuries:

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Dan :)
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There also doing a lot of deals in South America too, for resources. They appear to be very focused, and strategic minded, about resource acquisitions/deals, which will place them in a very advantageous position in the near future.

Agreed. They've been doing this for DECADES now and all the US and West do is wring their hands and talk a lot of woe is me.

You'd think they'd learn from the Japanese pre-WW2 expansion, infiltration and intelligence gathering. China is (and has been)positioning itself quite well for the future.

Wasn't China asked to leave Chad recently ? …due to poor environmental controls / pollution / fines ?

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Things must have been pretty bad if you are an oil giant and you can't bribe your way out of trouble in Chad.

I think China is accumulating their own baggage in Africa fairly quickly.

I wonder if the Chinese deployment to Sudan is as much about protecting 'Chinese Interests' (/Investments?)

AK47 scenario ?

China was the UN Force in Cyprus recently too … They just want to do their part …