Posted on 12/23/2004 6:51:20 AM PST by milestogo
Thursday, December 23, 2004; Page A01
LEAL, Sudan -- On this parched and dusty African plain, China's largest energy company is pumping crude oil, sending it 1,000 miles upcountry through a Chinese-made pipeline to the Red Sea, where tankers wait to ferry it to China's industrial cities. Chinese laborers based in a camp of prefabricated sheds work the wells and lay highways across the flats to make way for heavy machinery.
Only seven miles south, the rebel army that controls much of southern Sudan marches troops through this sun-baked town of mud huts. For years, the rebels have attacked oil installations, seeking to deprive the Sudan government of the wherewithal to pursue a civil war that has killed more than 2 million people and displaced 4 million from their homes over the past two decades. But the Chinese laborers are protected: They work under the vigilant gaze of Sudanese government troops armed largely with Chinese-made weapons -- a partnership of the world's fastest-growing oil consumer with a pariah state accused of fostering genocide in its western Darfur region.
Sudan is China's largest overseas oil project. China is Sudan's largest supplier of arms, according to a former Sudan government minister. Chinese-made tanks, fighter planes, bombers, helicopters, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades have intensified Sudan's two-decade-old north-south civil war. A cease-fire is in effect and a peace agreement is expected to be signed by year-end. But the fighting in Sudan's Darfur region rages on, as government-backed Arab militias push African tribes off their land.
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This very thing is predicted in the DFS in the Sudan. And, in doing this, the PRC keep importing more and more young workers into the Sudan (and a lot of other places) so that when major hostilities finally break out...guess what, thay already have boots on the ground.
It used to be that we would generally look at an area in strife and only see that the muslims were attacking someone. Now, the reality strikes home: Those muslims are working for the ChiComs. Just like I said after 911. The ChiComs OWN the Arabs. (Or are at least renting them currently.)
What sucks is that they are using OUR MONEY to pay them with.
Damn, Jeff - you're faster than light!
On FR, the ten minutes it took me to respond is normally considered very slow indeed...LOL!
For another thing, it wouldn't surprise me if the Chinese were quietly supporting other Islamic ventures: another win-win deal for them.
1. They get to destabilize their rivals;
2. The Islamists-in southern China-stop stirring up problems for the comrades.
You know, it is only a matter of time till we are going to hav to deal with the Chinesse.
China will own Africa in 50 years.
How many chinese refugees can you fit in an oil tanker????
Ya gotta watch those Chi-Comms like a hawk ~ Bump!
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