Posted on 05/28/2006 6:07:37 PM PDT by Flavius
KHARTOUM, 05/28 - The third and last batch of 130 Chinese peacekeepers arrived in Sudan on Saturday, completing deployment of a total of 430 Chinese peacekeeping troops to the country.
The Chinese peacekeepers landed in El-Obeid, central Sudan and immediately reported for duty at the logistics base of the UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan.
They were to stay in El-Obeid for Saturday night and then travel the next day to Wau in southern Sudan, where the barracks of the Chinese peacekeepers are based.
The second batch of 135 Chinese peacekeepers arrived in El-Obeid on Friday following the arrival of another 135 Chinese peacekeepers 10 days earlier. All of these 270 Chinese peacekeepers had already been stationed in Wau.
A 25-member advance team and a five-member group of the Chinese peacekeeping force had arrived in Wau in April and March respectively.
The UN Security Council adopted a resolution on March 24, 2005 authorizing the deployment of a peacekeeping force to southern Sudan to help imple
There's no such thing as a chinese peacekeeper.
South Sudan could become independent, and Chinese peacekeepers have already come as close to the United States as the nation of Haiti to the United States' south.
Truth be told, this is a salutory development. Don't forget that our first brush with the jihad happened under Reagan when our troops were supposed to be peacekeeping in the wake of the Lebanese civil war (unless you count the run in under Jefferson between us and the Barbary Pirates).
The jihadis in the Sudan are as likely to take offense at the Chinese as at any other non-Muslims, so we may get to be allies of convenience with China during the current unpleasantness, a circumstance which, in my estimation, decreases the likelihood that a hot war with the PRC will be the next conflict facing us. Don't forget they already have their own Muslim problem in their west.
whatever they will need in future to pacify taiwan
FYI.
im sorry but communists get along quite well with jihadists because they are the source of weapons and training,
so i dont see us holding hands into the bright future with chicoms
no way no how
You underestimate the power of Islamic ingratitude. Clinton provided the Muslims with an airforce to conqueror Christian lands in Europe. Bush did not change Clinton's Balkan policy, and 9-11 was our thanks.
The Muslims will bite the hand that feeds them, and there is a chance this will produce an alliance of convenience. (Which we can hope will last long enough that the internal dynamic of Chinese modernization destroys the neo-fascist incarnation of Chinese communism before we need to fight them.)
Thanks.
China’s need for oil reserves for its growing domestic economy has caused its government to pursue investments in many countries of marginal stability and democracy, but its greatest oil success abroad has been in Sudan.China was not new to Sudan. By the time it invested in GNPOC in December 1996, it was already a familiar arms dealer to many Sudanese governments. The Nimeiri government (1969-85) bought weapons from China. But these purchases rose in the 1990s due to Sudan’s internal war and the promise of improved finances and enhanced international credit derived from its oil potential.
Weapons deliveries from China to Sudan since 1995 have included ammunition, tanks, helicopters, and fighter aircraft. China also became a major supplier of antipersonnel and antitank mines after 1980, according to a Sudanese government official. The SPLA in 1997 overran government garrison towns in the south, and in one town alone, Yei, a Human Rights Watch researcher saw eight Chinese 122 mm towed howitzers, five Chinese-made T-59 tanks, and one Chinese 37 mm anti-aircraft gun abandoned by the government army.
China admitted that it brought in a team of 10,000 Chinese laborers so the GNPOC project could be completed by the NIF’s tenth anniversary (June 30, 1999). Its labor costs were low: “Our workers are used to eating bitterness . . . they can work 13 to 14 hours a day for very little.”
Selected extracts of Human Rights Watch website: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/sudan1103/26.htm
Chinese investment protection service.
Perhaps. Sure hope they don't take the path of convenient peace that they took centuries ago.
One of our greatest strengths militarily is to project force over extended supply lines for long periods with no degradation in quality.
We have been practicing this at least since the Civil War.
It is one of the reasons that we did so well in Afghanistan, when the Russians did so poorly.
The Chinese experience here will tell us a lot about what we will face in the future.
Interesting tag about an article that is merely about routine UN troop deployment. But one shouldn't read into this article any more than it's intention.
The UN's goal is to deploy 20,000 peace keeping troops into Sudan by the end of the year. The fact that China only sends 430 troops tells me that is all they're willing to contribute to this operation. China with it's large population should send in at least 10 times this amount. They are benefiting from global trade and should help stabilize the world with some of her own resources.
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