This chapter takes the case studies of Sudan and South Sudan where China has played a significant if sometimes controversial role. Investigating the shifting policy positions and response to crisis engendered by Chinese multilateral engagement and its commercial interests in the region, the constraints and obstacles to constructive involvement are highlighted through this study. Link to publication
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This paper gives a thematic analysis of the Chinese, Indian, Russian and Brazilian engagements in Sudan after 2005, with particular interest in the changing nature and trajectory of these relationships after the establishment of South Sudan in 2011. Download
This briefing reports from a two-day policy advisory group seminar on 23 and 24 August 2010, discussing Sudan’s multiple, interconnected challenges as the country fast approaches a historic transition including the South Sudan and Abyei referenda. Download
This article considers how China’s involvement in and relation to Sudanese politics has developed over the past two decades, by examining two important and inter-related manifestations of China’s changing engagement with Northern and Southern Sudan amidst the coexistence of ongoing conflict in Darfur and a formal North–South peace. Link to publication
This article considers why the Chinese government’s enduring principle of noninterference has come under increasing and more visible strain in recent years in Sudan. In so doing, it is particularly concerned with the changing nature of China’s role in Sudan. Link to publication
This article looks at China’s relationship with Sudan. The author suggest that by far the most significant and consequential area where China has and will continue to impact on Sudan is oil. Link to publication