On June 13 this year, three Chinese men carrying bulky backpacks disembarked from a plane at Juba International Airport in the capital of South Sudan.
At any other time, the Chinese might not have been conspicuous as they walked hurriedly towards the terminal building. But this was at the height of the civil that erupted in late 2013 when South Sudanese President Salva Kiir accused his sacked his vice president, Gen. Riek Machar of attempting a military coup.
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