South Sudan: China to Send UN Troops to South Sudan, Denies Deployment Related to Oil Investment

Sep 25, 2014 | Kathleen Caulderwood, International Business Times
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China will send 700 troops to South Sudan as part of a U.N. peacekeeping mission to help civilians after nine months of violent conflict that has threatened Chinese oil investments.

Beijing has had interests in the region for decades, and today gets 5 percent of its oil from South Sudan. Though China’s foreign investment policy has, at least publicly, involved non-interference with local politics, the situation in Sudan has been especially complicated over the year. And now it’s starting to affect its bottom line, drawing the world's second-biggest economy into the volatile region.