On the Causes, Impacts and Countermeasures of China’s Assistance in Sudan
Bai Xuhui
Abstract: Due to its sensitivity, it is traditionally viewed in China that the essence of the Darfur Crisis is just a local development issue. After a survey of its history and present situation, however, the author finds that currently there exist three varied editions of this problem on the international arena, i.e., the Darfur Crisis in a Sudan context, the Darfur Crisis in a West context or say a Westernized Darfur Crisis, and the Darfur Crisis in a China context. What China is in face of is precisely the Chinese-context one. From a comprehensive perspective, the essence of the Darfur Crisis is absolutely not only a development question in the local society but, more and more, a competition among great powers with local conflicts as their instrumental platform in this region. China should fully appraise its own comprehensive proportion of income and loss in Sudan and pursue a balance between them. China should not be constrained by its diplomatic tradition of no interfere in internal affairs of other countries, instead, it should positively seek a new foreign policy thinking for the construction of its national image as a responsible great power, and finally complete its gradual transform of diplomacy in the 21st century.