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After Supporting Genocide in Darfur, China Pledges Peace Keeping Troops for Sudan

During his recent visit to China, Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Othman Ismail emphasized Sudan’s interest in economic co-operation with the country and obtained China’s agreement to expand into more areas and raise its level of financing. In addition, Ismail said China has promised to join the United Nations peace-keeping force in southern Sudan. [more from Sudan Watch]

Not surprising, China is now the largest foreign investor in Sudan, and, when the United Nations' Security Council passed Resolution 1564, threatening Sudan with oil sanctions unless it curbed the violence in Darfur, China rendered the resolution meaningless by pledging to veto any bid to impose an embargo.

See:

China’s Interest in Sudan

China’s Support of Genocide in Sudan

Financing Mass Murder - "The dominant and most ruthless international player in Sudan's oil sector," Reeves writes, is "China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). After Goldman Sachs failed in 2000 to secure a $10 billion Initial Public Offering for CNPC, the Wall Street firm created a so-called financial 'cut-out,' which became the new entity 'PetroChina.' . . . Wholly controlled and 90 percent owned by CNPC, it lists on the New York Stock Exchange."