Post-Cold War China-Sudan Political and Economic Relations: Challenges and Opportunities
| dc.contributor.advisor | Venkataraman, M. (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | G/Egziabher, Ermias | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-28T06:28:17Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-04T11:33:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-06-28T06:28:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-04T11:33:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Not surprisingly, bilateral relations between countries invariably encompass interests and constraint .China-Sudan, post cold war economic and political relations has posed both challenges and opportunities. China’s non-interference principle, protecting the Sudan regime from pressure of international community caused confrontation with the Western countries. Using the principle as a tool to prevent others not to intervene, it provided weapons, in exchange of oil money and investment opportunities. Consequently, using the military hard-wares imported from China the regime enhanced gross violations of human rights, such as, torture, mass killings and detention. Embargoes, sanction and resolution on the Sudan regime for its human rights catastrophe were annulled and acquitted by China arguing that responding the situation in Sudan is an internal problem deserved to be solved internally. Furthermore, the two countries’ have forwarded their political interest globally; Sudan supported China’s membership in the UN Security Council in 1970s, and it was defeated its human rights allegation in 1980s at the UN human rights council by the support of African countries including Sudan. On China part, it was supported a unified Sudan, opposing the South Sudan independency. The objective of the thesis is to explore the political and economic elements harmonizing and hindering relationships between the two countries in the post cold war period. To ascertain this, predominantly qualitative with minimal level of quantitative research methodologies are employed. Both primary and secondary sources of data are utilized. By doing this, the study demonstrated issues such as, Western pressure on China to drag its diplomatic ally, internal dynamics in Sudan such as, security factor and the secession of South Sudan, as obstacles for their relations. It also found out that, the economic cooperation between the two countries is showing opportunities. The major contributing factor for this is the exploration and production of oil in Sudan, coupled with China’s demand of energy for its manufacturing industries. After the exploration of oil in Sudan, the country’s economic activities have shown a significant growth. Job opportunities for its citizen, value added to GDP diversified investment opportunities from the oil revenue. As a result, the balance of import-export of the two countries was in favors Sudan. Since, China has eagerly come to Sudan to extol oil and to access investment opportunities for its companies, it was importing 64% of Sudanese oil out-put, which covers 7% of its overall oil consumption. And as a state owned enterprise the CNPC became a major oil explorer company, which shares 40% of the Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company (GNPOC) in the oil consortium | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/4364 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | International Relation | en_US |
| dc.title | Post-Cold War China-Sudan Political and Economic Relations: Challenges and Opportunities | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |