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What Country Just Deployed Troops To Defend Its Oil Fields Located On A Distant Continent?
If this was the 90s, the correct answer with 99.9% certainty, would have been unequivocally the United States. However, perhaps as a testament to how the times have changed, not to mention the geopolitics and the dominant global superpowers, the answer this time is not the US but instead China. And the country where according to the WSJ, China has deployed some 700 soldiers as part of a United Nations "peacekeeping" force, is South Sudan where the Chinese troops will help guard the country's embattled oil fields and protect Chinese workers and installations, a spokesman for the African nation's president said Tuesday.
More on this page straight out of the CIA's playbook:
The airlift of the Chinese infantry battalion to the South Sudanese states of Unity and Upper Nile, the site of the only operating oil fields still under control of the central government in Juba, was expected to take several days, spokesman Ateny Wek Ateny said.
While Beijing's troops will operate under U.N. command, their posting to South Sudan marks a sharp escalation of China's efforts to ensure the safety of its workers and assets in Africa, and guarantee a steady flow of energy for domestic consumption.
The deployment marks the first time Beijing has contributed a battalion to a U.N. peacekeeping force, U.N. officials said. In March 2013, China sent some 300 peacekeepers to Mali to protect Chinese engineers building a U.N. camp in the town of Gao.
Why the Sudan?
State-owned China's National Petroleum Corp. holds a 40% stake in a joint venture that operates South Sudan's vast oil fields. The company also operates a 1,000-mile export pipeline that ships crude through neighboring Sudan to Port Sudan on the Red Sea.
More than 10,000 people have been killed and some 1.5 million uprooted from their homes in South Sudan since fighting erupted in December between President Salva Kiir and forces loyal to the former vice president, Riek Machar. The U.N. Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS) is authorized by the Security Council for up to 12,500 troops and 1,323 police personnel. As of July 31, it had a total of 11,389 soldiers, police and military liaison officers.
Under its mandate, U.N. peacekeepers are allowed to use "all necessary means" to protect imperiled civilians at oil installations. If attacked, Mr. Ateny said, the Chinese soldiers are "combat ready and can fight back."
But is China about to make a grave mistake and barge like a United States in a, well, middle-eastern store? The rebellious locals are doing their best to make sure China does not overstep its limitations and become a second United States.
Rebels fighting to depose Mr. Kiir's government have warned Beijing against taking sides in their fight. "The Chinese should work under the mandate and command of the (U.N.)," said rebel spokesman, James Gatdet Dak. "As long as they stick to that, we shall not have a problem with them."
The greater Sudan region has been a caldron of unrest for the past several years, with the kidnappings of Chinese workers by rebels in Sudan and civil war in South Sudan, which gained its independence from its northern neighbor in 2011.
Sudanese rebels in the South Kordofan region kidnapped dozens of Chinese road construction workers in 2012 and demanded that Beijing use its influence to compel the Khartoum government to halt an offensive against the rebels. China's National Petroleum Corp evacuated 97 of its staff from South Sudan's oil fields in December, shortly after Mr. Kiir accused Mr. Machar, his former vice president, of launching a coup and fighting broke out. Since then, they have waged an 8-month battle, often over strategic oil fields.
Sounds like such a hassle: why doesn't China just give up on the local political chaos and look to easier ways to obtain crude? Simple: it can't. "Before the latest fighting in South Sudan flared, the country accounted for 5% of China's crude imports, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration. Output has since plummeted by a third—to 160,000 barrels-a-day—following the outbreak of fighting late last year."
Which means China has no option: the country has sought diplomatically to ease tensions in the region. Beijing's envoys were key to resolving last year's oil export dispute between Sudan and South Sudan, which brought the two former civil war foes to the brink of war. But the outbreak of the current conflict presents Beijing with a new challenge. And with few if any private security companies operating in the area, the task of protecting China's state-run companies—and their billions of dollars of investments—has increasingly fallen to the Chinese military. And today, to some 700 soldiers.
The issue, as US foreign policy knows and has demonstrated to the world all too well, is that it always begins with a "few hundred soldiers." The problem is when a few hundred become a few hundred thousand. And if the world has learned anything by now about interventionist foreign policy, is that one of the ways the US is losing its superpower status at the fastest rate possible, is due to its endless military "conquests" abroad which usually take a few years if not months to backfire and/or blowback, and to send the country flailing from one foreign crisis to another, leading to a world precariously poised on the edge of a global conflict precipice, to avoid calling it something far more serious.
China should ask itself if that is what it really wants, although on its path to superpower status, something tells us that the answer will be, sadly, an empathic yes even if for the most part, China has approached the topic of taking over the world correctly, as shown in the following map of Africa which plots China's slow, steady and certain colonization of this suddenly most important of continents.
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And another prerequisite is checked off...
Ah so.... Gaijin.... Two can pray at ris game. You runder I rern to splek engrish?.... I study at ru-c-hell-ray Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Anything you can do, the Chinese can do it better and cheaper.
Publicus,
But, can they survive on the minimum wage, like we do in the land of the free?
So, how is this for ignorance and denial?
Chinese citizen shitizism is eternal ;-)
And, very soon, I am afraid to say, shitizism contagiousizism…
I am already missing the good ol'd days (1997 through 2007)
Too bad that we will never see it again.
Kind of obvious why the Chinese are in need of aircraft carriers. A great way to have tons of air assets parked off the coast of Africa to support what may be hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops, in the future.
COSMOS
Africa Problem: 1.1 billion people, with about 8.5 million barrels of oil a day, but declining fast
South America: 400 million people, with about 7.5 million barrels of oil a day.
Africa also has major water problem.
http://peakoilbarrel.com/bp-statistical-review-world-energy-2014/
"China should ask itself"
I read this shit everyday. What's wrong with you people? There's nobody called China or the USA.
The USA didnt drop the Bomb; Colonel Tibbets Jr. did. Enough of this shit!
1.3 billion peeps, mon ami, India is the one with 1.1
bid the soldier...,
1.1 billion people in the WHOLE African Continent.
India is 1.2 billion people
Wiat a sec! Taking energy resources in a distant nation is OUR job!
Listen Mid Town. Don't get all riled up. 'merica won't need too much energy anymore when your DO-lar looses it's "RESERVE" status. Long footwear for the USSA people. Walk bitchez.
It blows my mind, I drive a small fuel efficient Japanese car and I can handle higher fuel prices. But what about all those SUVs, and minivans, and Trucks.
Maybe the sheeple will demand change in DC when they face more than four dollars a gallon. Also those big truck tires, one tire costs more than changing all four of tires on my car.
There will have to be some end to this madness
Africa is up for grabs and the U.S. is missing the boat.
Too far away from Israel to matter
They tried to get the Zionist to settle in Africa and offered to partition off a good portion but noooo, they had to have Palestine.
zorba THE GREEK,
Is this a serious statement?
Or, is it ignorance?
The last major coup of America in Africa was the the creation of the newest democracy in the world. South Sudan.
Hey, wait a minute...
Africa has always been and always will be up for grabs
Grab all the ebola, aids, and bushmeat you want.
And so it begins.
I'll bet they do it right.
Effectively-yes; right-no.
No don't fire till you see the white of their eyes shit for those blokes, no return only if fired upon, no, no loaded magazines in the weapon, none of that nothing chambered crap.... no sirree, none of that shit. And last time I looked they were partial to these really, really long bayonets
Gold, oil, minerals, jewels and one hell of a great petri dish for bio-chemical experimentation.
They will react like a modern US police dept: shoot first, ask questions later.
With the exception that they make the Sudanese family pay for any bullets used.
Very detail oriented, the Chinese ;-)
Yes, but I see a chink in their armor...
Budumpa!
(And the sound of cymbals crashing)...lol.
The Canadian NATO group will now have to make a 3-color map for the Chinese also.
E.g. China, Not China, World.
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/06/15/un_peacekeepers_to_pr...
"But China received the backing of the United States, Britain, France, and other key powers, whose representatives argued that attacks on South Sudan's oil infrastructure threatened to further destabilize the world's youngest country by destroying its main economic lifeline. Indeed, one Security Council diplomat said the negotiations were not the least bit contentious. Another observer described the Security Council as "ruthlessly pragmatic" in recognition of the importance of South Sudan's oil fields and of China's increasingly important role as a power broker in South Sudan."
China received the backing of the US, UK, France and other key powers who had better things to do than allow their military to contract the Ebola virus and bring it home.
But then again, they have open air butchers in the summer all over China so maybe Ebola should be afraid of the Chinese?
US is all about privatizing the bringing back of Ebola:
http://news.yahoo.com/us-ebola-evacuations-has-included-more-patients--a...
If ebola is afraid of the Chinese, it would resemble many posters here.
Curious.
Expect a spike in the amount of shit on the side of the road.
lol
China and more junk from China is all I know about them. Other than they were able to land on the moon with a rover 40 years after everyone else.
GREAT NEWS - FINALLY the Chinese get involved in eradicating the islamic cult worshipers - YIPPPEEE! I hope the Chinese send swarms of troops and wipe out all the islamic vermin.
As well as HIV and Ebola-carrying vermin.
But only after the Muslims have eradicated STDs that Western 'culture' likes to propagate.
Ersatz China. I mean honkey colonized Africa for quite a while. Its time for the Chinese to try. And I do believe the Chinese can manage to stick around there permanently.
US government is busy realigning the Middle East and Ukraine for NWO. The fly in the ointment is Russia, China. Both now sick to death of US hegemonic aspirations in their respective back yards. I think it entirely possible we are on the verge of nuclear Armageddon. Who would have thought the US would be the Great Satan that would take us in to a mass extinction.
A country we once all looked up to. Now despised by all. The US government is truly evil infiltrated at every level by Israeli Zionists.
Ahh, back to the days of Joseph Conrad only this time with the ChiComs playing the role of the Belgians and King Leopold.
I'm waiting for the PLA to deploy to Caracas as soon as Sr. Merd(ero) can't make the monthly oil export installment.
Any chance Israel is meddling in the Sudans?
More than you'd think...
An improvement compared to the Belgians.
I believe your thinking of the Congo.
Belgians in the Congo!...we didn't light the fire.
(You can learn a lot from rock music...lol)
- The 10 most significant secrecy jurisdictions in the world, in the opinion of the Tax Justice Network: the U.S. (Delaware), Luxembourg, Switzerland, Cayman Islands, the U.K. (City of London), Ireland, Bermuda, Singapore, Belgium and Hong Kong.
nmewn,
Thanks to clear that for me.
You have a consistent pattern of expressing hatred and propaganda against the Israelis - which tribe of islamic cult worshiper are you from ???
I have found quite the opposite, there is a pattern of hatred and propaganda againts the Gentiles, anti-Gentilism, propagated by a certain tribe, not islamic, all of this can be found in their scriptures and in teachings of their orthodox holy men
I wonder if our Osprey's aren't ferrying the troops (probably down for maintenance) http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/10/world/africa/us-mission-in-south-sudan...
how dare those sudanese fuck with china's oil? the nerve.
Give them impetuous locals that Ebola. The gift just keeps on giving.
Same old song and dance. Goodbye petrodollar, hello petroyuan or petroruble. Goodbye Sauds, hello Russians or Chinese.
Those poor fuckers in Africa. Seems the only reason God put them on the planet was pain, suffering, disease, starvation and having anything of value torn from them wholesale.
Nobody gives a shit about 'em.
Nobody
THEY DO.
Problem is, given the amount of time taken up just surviving, there's not much energy for anything else.
Another reason to hate the corrupt banksters, who are the cause of this.
IF there was a true Democratic movement or Anarchist movement in the USA... maybe like in the 1920 France or the 2014 Denmark, Sweden, Norway...
Maybe we would constantly "Talk about African History" and use the abuse of power and corruption of Money & Greed as the basis for True Model of Democracy, or Liberty, or Freedom... OR Human Rights & Human Dignity.
Fuck It.
r selection at work.
I have good news!
Suffering is universal.
Chinese imperialist PIGS!!
Not really. They have a right to defend their oil source like any other country. Being that china is now chummy with russia, they are a ripe target for tribal chicanery in small, distant non-asian countries.
Dollar - Yuan - Rouble ..........
The ultimate currency is energy.
Keep that in mind and the world becomes easier to understand.
Power comes from the control of energy via the barrel of a gun. (a variation on a quote from Mao)
Those who crave power will do anything to control sources of energy.
Solar has never been too serously persued because it would give everyone access to energy, taking away control by the elites.
The Chinese are already buying up all their huts in the villages! Watch the price of a 20 sf jungle hut double, maybe triple, in the next few years.
Oh my....
Just a hop, skip, and a jump from Ebola territory. If that gets loose in China, game over.
http://olduvai.ca
Ebola could potentially hit Africa very hard, lots of lives lost and governments destabilized. The Hegellian Dialectic unfortunately applies in the midst of human suffering.
I don't think those Africans have any idea what they are getting into letting China in.
China won't be sending Missionaries and food as much as they will aministrators backed by troops with a no-nonsense posture; no "hearts and minds" campaigns either.
One-child policy forced by David Rockefeller and his CFR as a necessary condition to allow Beijing to normalize relations with Washington in 1972 is the ultimate weapon to force communist China to abandon Mao's People's War Discipline. We'll see how this will play out in Washington's Great Proletarian War with capitalistic China.
Listen. 700 troops? That's enough to cover 2 shifts (AM/PM) with a few days off here and there.
You "ZERO's" really know how to do the drama!
The crazy thing is that they can swell the 700 troops to 7 million no problem
Hm,..perhaps Putin should send Russian troops into the Donbas of eastern ukraine to protect their gas transit pumping stations and gas pipe lines against the Kiev nazi fascists to ensure the uninterupted flow of gas to westerns europe.
Libertarians think government always does things poorly, worse than private entities. They also seem to admire China and Russia, where government does everything that is done. They do not explain this contradiction.
Government is the problem, not the solution.
Stating that "Libertarians think government always does things poorly, worse than private entities. They also seem to admire China and Russia, where government does everything that is done. They do not explain this contradiction" doesn't make it a fact.
The logical conclusion from the idea called 'libertarianism' is Anarchism.
The only real solution to the problem of government.
All countries would do it if they could. Even grand mother Russia and her golden child Mr. Putin. Oh wait, they already have several centuries of agression for resources under their belt. But since their oligarchs are fighting our oligarchs it's good
I don't see China as a major military issue. Too fragile.
I see Putin-Khamenei axis being too daring, too active and too pushy taking advantage of the pussycat in the white house
China has a huge population and NUKES.
Hardly a combination you can just decide to ignore.
Huge population they can't feed is different from huge population with food abundance.
China can't feed itself
Does that make it easier to ignore, or more important not to?
Just asking.
easier to ignore.
China is like a federation of provinces. Beijing is like the franchiser and provinces are teh franchaisee.
Too much politburo infighting right now.
Regional risk, but not global military risk
The Chinese could slip 5,000,000 army peeps in using their shipping container ships.
you know if youre slightly color blind u cant tell the diff between 1/2B and 10B in that lousy chart. F@#kit, who's counting?
The portugese slave trader is right. Africa is so much better off than under those nasty euros esp. Belgians, Just ask the ANgolans
I think I can see why you need assistance
I know green from red but I test colour-blind. I can't tell some shades on that map because they get darker as I shift my viewing angle.
is it any wonder it is simple wait for china to invest let them graft let them strike and discover.
when they scream eureka send in the mossad,mi6,cia chatham house rothschild wrecking crew fucking works every time.
the biggest challenge for tavistock is coming up with a name the beatles,procul harem, isis,boko harem,herman goerings hermits
china have been spineless for far to long those pesky threats from edwyne rothschild did not help talking about china weather.
a hint about haarp
Update re: European gas.
http://m.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=163254
Didn't I just read a ZH article about Mr. Prince, formerly of Blackwater now running logistics for China in Africa??? Maybe ebola will show up next in Zimbabwe and Zaire?
China Africa, US, War
Try reading a possible scenario by a great writer.
John Michael Greer.
How It Could Happen, Part One: Hubrishttp://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-it-could-happen-part-...
How It Could Happen, Part Two: Nemesishttp://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-it-could-happen-part-...
How It Could Happen, Part Three: To The Brinkhttp://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-it-could-happen-part-...
What that continent needs is a Ebola vaccine for oil program.
At least the Wahabbists will have a new enemy for Jihad, as they must have gotten tired of hating america by now.
Now if I can just find the right flag-making company that already has a foothold in the middle-east... I see a sudden demand for flammable Chinese flags coming.
the truth be told, is that the exploration of oil and its extraction is very technical & scientifically advanced..., and employs very few, if any, extensive manpower/labor (indigenous) today. indeed, infrastructure is needed, but that to is limited[?], never coming, once the vital routes of transport have been established to port.
the sad reality is the very fact that oil discoveries don't last forever and the monies should be used for building out lasting infrastructure, ie. irrigation for agrarian use, telecommunication and highways for industrial/ manufacturing usage. unfortunately this rarely happens in third world countries.
jmo