U.S. Speaks Out Against China's Weapons Sales to Sudan
On Wednesday the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing titled “China in Africa: Implications on U.S. Policy”. Among the presenters were James Swan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, and Tom Christensen, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. During Swan and Christensen's joint testimony, Swan’s explained that the U.S. Government has “...asked the Chinese Government to halt its companies’ substantial arms trade with Sudan because of the likelihood that some Chinese-origin armaments are being used by the Sudanese government in Darfur, in contravention of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1591.” (Resolution 1591 placed a legally binding arms embargo on Darfur) Human Rights First welcomes Mr. Swan’s statement and urges the U.S. Government to continue pressuring China, both publicly and privately, to immediately halt its arms sales Sudan.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang responded Swan’s testimony yesterday by saying "China's efforts on Darfur are no worse than and no less than any other country in the world.” It is true that China played an important role in getting Khartoum’s buy-in for the Security Council authorized UN-AU peacekeeping mission in Darfur (called UNAMID). China has since contributed engineers to help build infrastructure critical to UNAMID’s operations. However, such contributions are overshadowed by China’s continued sale of weapons to the Government of Sudan.
It is now clear that parties to the conflict in Darfur have little incentive to achieve a peaceful settlement to the conflict as long as they have access to the weapons that fuel the violence. By sustaining its weapons sales to the Government of Sudan with full knowledge that Khartoum is committing atrocities in Darfur, China is giving a green light for Khartoum to ignore binding Security Council resolutions. Clearly China cannot be expected to end the atrocities in Darfur, that is the ultimate responsibility of the Government of Sudan. But there is no question that China can stop selling arms to Khartoum, thereby sending a strong message that it is committed to a peaceful resolution to the conflict in the region.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang responded Swan’s testimony yesterday by saying "China's efforts on Darfur are no worse than and no less than any other country in the world.” It is true that China played an important role in getting Khartoum’s buy-in for the Security Council authorized UN-AU peacekeeping mission in Darfur (called UNAMID). China has since contributed engineers to help build infrastructure critical to UNAMID’s operations. However, such contributions are overshadowed by China’s continued sale of weapons to the Government of Sudan.
It is now clear that parties to the conflict in Darfur have little incentive to achieve a peaceful settlement to the conflict as long as they have access to the weapons that fuel the violence. By sustaining its weapons sales to the Government of Sudan with full knowledge that Khartoum is committing atrocities in Darfur, China is giving a green light for Khartoum to ignore binding Security Council resolutions. Clearly China cannot be expected to end the atrocities in Darfur, that is the ultimate responsibility of the Government of Sudan. But there is no question that China can stop selling arms to Khartoum, thereby sending a strong message that it is committed to a peaceful resolution to the conflict in the region.
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posted by Eric Sears at
12:57 PM
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china needs to lose its market, they are 100% up to no good, we need to do some think now before its to late,, what china is doing reminds me of what Hitler did just before war. every one new what was going to happen but every one is in like a dream world, as if, no, that could not happen to me, its like when people get cancer, they all say as if, i never through i would get it,,, people need to wake up and open there eyes and have a good think about what could happen if we did not do any think now, they are building EMP bombs, but every one thinks that they are building them to turn of all the power in America,, wrong, this is why china is building EMP bombs.,, America has nuclear weapons so china knows that they can not attack them, and get into there country,, so what do you do,, you make a EMP bomb and when America fires a nuclear bomb at china, they will let a EMP bomb off, and the nuclear bomb will not go off,, so how do you take out America, keep fire ring EMP bombs to fuck up there nuclear bombs. All nuclear bombs need electronic components in them. every one is so dum, I bet non of you that read this even thought of that,, a EMP bomb is not to take out a cities power, its to stop nuclear bombs from going off, it’s the only way you can invade or fight a country with nuclear bombs and win..
So if china is making EMP bombs, what do you think they are trying to do??????????
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