Posted on 09/16/2007 12:42:40 AM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
BEIJING: China will deploy engineers and a medical unit to Sudan's troubled Darfur region next month as part of a United Nations peacekeeping mission, the military reported...
Energy-hungry China buys two-thirds of Sudan's oil output and sells weapons to the Khartoum regime. Critics say Beijing has not used its economic leverage to push Sudan's government more strongly for peace in Darfur, and have attempted to shame China into acting by linking the Darfur crisis to next year's Summer Olympics in the Chinese capital.
Xinhua said the unit headed to Darfur has been trained in international law, the United Nations constitution and the English language...
(Excerpt) Read more at iht.com ...
The U.N. should be responsible for the troops under its command.
China is moving to Africa. There are pluses and minuses.
They are good soldiers.
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