Sudan - Khartoum-Beijing Relations.Chinese President Hu Jintao Hu Jintao (h  ` jĭn`tou`), 1942–, Chinese political leader, b. Jixi, Anhui prov. A hydroelectric engineering graduate (1965) of Qinghua Univ. visited in Sudan in February 2007. It
was then announced that Hu had unique influence because China was buying
60% of Sudan's crude oil output, building projects such as the
$1.8bn Merowe hydro-electric complex, and refused to back UNSC UNSC United Nations Security CouncilUNSC United Nations Space Command (gaming) UNSC United Nations Staff College sanctions over Darfur. China has since been preventing the international community from penalising the Khartoum government over the Darfur conflict The Darfur conflict is a crisis in the Darfur region of western Sudan. Unlike the Second Sudanese Civil War, which was fought between the primarily Muslim north and Christian and Animist south, the current lines of conflict are seen to be ethnic and tribal, rather than religious. . Hu's eight-nation trip to Africa in 2007 was both a diplomatic mission Noun 1. diplomatic mission - a mission serving diplomatic ends delegation, deputation, delegacy, commission, mission - a group of representatives or delegates foreign mission, legation - a permanent diplomatic mission headed by a minister and an attempt to secure supplies of oil and minerals for the fast-growing Chinese economy. The Sudan stop was the most delicate because of the crisis in Darfur, but the most important economically. |
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