Post-cold War China-sudan Political And Economic Relations Challenges And Opportunities

Not surprisingly, bilateral relations between countries invariably encompass interestsrnand constraint .China-Sudan, post cold war economic and political relations has posedrnboth challenges and opportunities. China’s non-interference principle, protecting thernSudan regime from pressure of international community caused confrontation with thernWestern countries. Using the principle as a tool to prevent others not to intervene, itrnprovided weapons, in exchange of oil money and investment opportunities.rnConsequently, using the military hard-wares imported from China the regime enhancedrngross violations of human rights, such as, torture, mass killings and detention.rnEmbargoes, sanction and resolution on the Sudan regime for its human rightsrncatastrophe were annulled and acquitted by China arguing that responding thernsituation in Sudan is an internal problem deserved to be solved internally. Furthermore,rnthe two countries’ have forwarded their political interest globally; Sudan supportedrnChina’s membership in the UN Security Council in 1970s, and it was defeated itsrnhuman rights allegation in 1980s at the UN human rights council by the support ofrnAfrican countries including Sudan. On China part, it was supported a unified Sudan,rnopposing the South Sudan independency. The objective of the thesis is to explore thernpolitical and economic elements harmonizing and hindering relationships between therntwo countries in the post cold war period. To ascertain this, predominantly qualitativernwith minimal level of quantitative research methodologies are employed. Both primaryrnand secondary sources of data are utilized. By doing this, the study demonstrated issuesrnsuch as, Western pressure on China to drag its diplomatic ally, internal dynamics inrnSudan such as, security factor and the secession of South Sudan, as obstacles for theirrnrelations. It also found out that, the economic cooperation between the two countries isrnshowing opportunities. The major contributing factor for this is the exploration andrnproduction of oil in Sudan, coupled with China’s demand of energy for itsrnmanufacturing industries. After the exploration of oil in Sudan, the country’s economicrnactivities have shown a significant growth. Job opportunities for its citizen, value addedrnto GDP diversified investment opportunities from the oil revenue. As a result, thernbalance of import-export of the two countries was in favors Sudan. Since, China hasrneagerly come to Sudan to extol oil and to access investment opportunities for itsrncompanies, it was importing 64% of Sudanese oil out-put, which covers 7% of itsrnoverall oil consumption. And as a state owned enterprise the CNPC became a major oilrnexplorer company, which shares 40% of the Greater Nile Petroleum OperatingrnCompany (GNPOC) in the oil consortium

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