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China in South Sudan: The Evolvement of the Chinese Non-Interference Policy (in English)
Dorina Marlen Heller
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China in South Sudan: The Evolvement of the Chinese Non-Interference Policy (in English) - Heller, Dorina Marlen
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Synopsis "China in South Sudan: The Evolvement of the Chinese Non-Interference Policy (in English)"
Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Orientalism / Sinology - Chinese / China, grade: 1.7, University of Heidelberg (Institut für Sinologie), course: Chinesische Au enpolitik (1918-2018), language: English, abstract: In this paper, China's history of evolving involvement in Sudan and South Sudan and its role as a stakeholder throughout periods of conflict and civil war will be explored. China's foreign policy actions in South Sudan, its motivations and limitations will also be analysed. In conclusion, it will be attempted to situate the case of South Sudan in China's wider foreign policy. China's engagement in Africa is often harshly criticised by Western media and seen as exploitative and neo-colonialist. Undoubtedly the impact of Chinese involvement in Africa has been both positive (investments in infrastructure, new jobs, economic growth) and negative (legitimising autocratic regimes, monopolisation of resources, unequal partnerships). South Sudan is a particularly interesting case study because it has been used as a "testing ground for China's proactive diplomacy". South Sudan is simultaneously the world's youngest and most fragile state. Most Western countries consider Sudan and by extension South Sudan to be - "an aid recipient, an abuser of human rights, and a former colony of Egypt and Great Britain.". However South Sudan is rich in terms of its oil reserves. This has both been a blessing and a curse for the young nation: On the one hand almost all of the country's revenues stem from oil production, on the other hand it meant that South Sudan invested disproportionally in the securement of its oil resources, but not in education, public health or infrastructure. This in turn has led to an unparalleled dependence on oil: "There is no oil-exporting country in the world so dependent on this one commodity for its revenue" (Medani 2013:28). Oil is also what originally brought China to Sudan and then South Sudan. The economical dimension can't be sepa
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