Sudan: Conflict Puts China in a Bind

Southern Sudan and Sudan proper got a bit of a wholesale slap this week. The UN Security Council said to both North and South to stop it, right now, and to sit down and resume talks chaperoned by the African Union - again.

Everyone has told everyone repeatedly to sit down and talk with limited success to date - hence the de-facto war situation. What made this latest admonishment slightly different was that there was an 'or else' contained in the UN Security Council resolution, too: the threat of sanctions against both countries. And both China and Russia have eventually come round to backing the resolution, too.

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