South Sudan: China Plays Peacemaker in Africa

Nov 2, 2014 | Independent Online
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The ‘Middle Kingdom’ has a new vision of the role it plays in Africa after meeting the South Sudanese rebels, writes Peter Fabricius.

The civil war in South Sudan means many different things to many different people, most of them unpleasant. China will remember it, though, rather uniquely, as the first occasion when it met the opposition in an African conflict – or maybe in any context.