Overtures From China

September 2008 | Ratings Update

As the six-year transition period set in motion by Sudan's 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement moves toward its last couple of years, there are signs that China is positioning itself ahead of a possible change in power dynamics between Sudan's ruling party and the South of the country. While China is making increasingly significant offers to South Sudan, Khartoum loyalists in Sudan's North are not only keen to retain their special relationship with the People's Republic, but are also once again making overtures to the US, in the hope of normalising relations with America, ahead of the possible election of a

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