Posted on 07/10/2008 6:44:14 PM PDT by robertvance
In the end, the Chinese government does not really care about the escalating violence in Sudan. As long as its investments and workers in Sudan are protected, it views the human rights issues as an internal Sudanese matter. In fact, the CCP is most likely sympathetic to the Sudanese government; after all, China has also been a victim lately of what the CCP would consider to be international ‘meddling’ in the case of Tibet. The CCP’s failure to promote positive change in Sudan is simply a manifestation of its own failures in China. Until China can improve the human rights situation in its own country, any harsh words by Beijing directed at the Sudanese government will only be perceived as a feeble attempt to appease the international community’s outrage over the situation. The Chinese are powerless to help bring an end to the bloodshed in Darfur and they know it. They are only capable of drilling deeper and deeper into Sudan until every last drop of Sudanese oil has flowed out to fuel the Chinese economy. Meanwhile, something else continues to flow in Sudan; human blood. To the Chinese government, however, it all looks the same; it all looks like bubbling black gold.
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