US, China duke it out over Darfur
We are seeing the dawn of a new Cold War between Washington and Beijing over control of major oil sources in Africa. So far Beijing has played its cards a bit more cleverly than Washington.
China gets 30% of its crude oil from Africa. In recent months, China has embarked on a series of initiatives designed to secure African oil. This has made Washington furious.
The USA uses debt, war, and petrodollars to steal oil. China is using no-strings-attached dollar credits, cutting the World Bank and the IMF out of picture. Why should Africans submit to the brutal IMF when China gives easy terms, and builds roads and schools as well?
In November 2006, Beijing hosted a summit of 40 African heads of state. The Chinese literally rolled out the red carpet for the heads of Algeria, Nigeria, Mali, Angola, Central African Republic, Zambia, South Africa, and others.
China just did an oil deal with Nigeria and South Africa. China's CNOC will lift the oil in Nigeria, via a consortium that also includes South African Petroleum Co. This will give China access to 175,000 barrels a day by 2008. It’s a $2.27 billion deal that gives state-controlled Chinese CNOC a 45% stake in a large off-shore Nigeria oil field.
Washington considers Nigeria to be an “asset” owned by ExxonMobil, Shell and Chevron.
China has been generous in dispensing soft loans at zero interest. In many cases, China makes outright grants to some of the poorest debtor states of Africa. The loans have gone to infrastructure, including highways, hospitals, and schools.
With the World Bank and the IMF, the only thing countries get is debt, and the privatization of all their resources.
In 2006 China committed more than $8 billion to Nigeria, Angola and Mozambique, versus $2.3 billion to all sub-Saharan Africa from the World Bank. Ghana is negotiating a $1.2 billion Chinese electrification loan. Unlike the World Bank, China shrewdly attaches no strings to its loans.
Washington is screaming that China is trying to “secure oil at the sources,” which is exactly what Washington wants to do.
(Satan always conceals his actions by accusing everyone else. – AZ)
Sudan, home of Darfur, is now the focal point.
Beijing’s China National Petroleum Company, CNPC, is Sudan’s largest foreign investor, with some $5 billion in oil field development. Since 1999 China has invested at least $15 billion in Sudan. China owns 50% of an oil refinery near Khartoum. The Sudan government owns the other half. The oil fields are concentrated in the south, where Bush is trying to trigger a civil war to get the oil. He wants to break the non-Islamic south from the Islamic north. He tells people in the south that he wants to protect them from “Islamic terrorism.
China’s CNPC built an oil pipeline from its concession blocs 1, 2 and 4 in southern Sudan, to a new terminal at Port Sudan on the Red Sea. There, oil is loaded on tankers bound for China. Eight percent of China’s oil now comes from southern Sudan. China takes up to 65% to 80% of Sudan’s 500,000 barrels/day of oil production. Last year, Sudan was China’s fourth largest foreign oil source. (Remember, China gets 30% of all its oil from Africa.) China is now the world’s second largest importer of oil after the United States, importing 6.5 million barrels a day. China’s oil demand continues to grow by an estimated 30% a year.
China’s CNPC holds rights to bloc 6 oil fields, which straddle Darfur, near the border to Chad and the Central African Republic. In April 2005, Sudan’s government announced it had found oil in South Darfur worth about 500,000 barrels/day.
As a cover for military activities, Washington and Hollywood have cooked up the “genocide” excuse. The U.S. military will have to invade to “stop the genocide" that is caused by the U.S. military. The prize is oil.
Chad is a U.S.-zionist puppet. It helped to train and armed the Sudan “Peoples’ Liberation Army,” headed by John Garang until Garang's death in July 2005. Garang and his thugs were trained at US Special Forces school at Fort Benning, Georgia.
Washington poured arms, money, and death squads into southern Sudan, and then into eastern Sudan when oil was discovered in Darfur. Tens of thousands of local people have been killed. Several million more are homeless.
Eritrea is another U.S.-zionist puppet. It hosts and supports the SPLA, the umbrella NDA opposition group, and the Eastern Front and Darfur rebels.
There are two puppet groups operating in Sudan's Darfur region against the Khartoum central government of President Omar al-Bashir. One is the Justice for Equality Movement (JEM). The other is the larger Sudan Liberation Army (SLA).
In February 2003 the SLA launched attacks on Sudan government positions in the Darfur region. The US-supported SLA created the “genocide” that Bush laments. SLA Secretary-General Minni Arkou Minnawi called for armed struggle, accusing the government of ignoring Darfur. "The objective of the SLA is to create a united democratic Sudan.”
In other words, Washington wants regime-change in Sudan.
In February 2006 the US Senate adopted a resolution that requested NATO troops in Darfur. A month later, Bush also called for more troops in Darfur.
The Pentagon trains African thugs and military officers in the US, much as it trains Latin American death squad operatives. Its International Military Education and Training (IMET) program has provided training to military officers from the Bush-zionist puppet countries of Chad, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Cameroon and the Central African Republic. All of these countries surround Sudan’s oil fields.
Arms for the death squads come from people like Victor Bout, a Russian Jew who now has offices in Texas and Florida. Bout is wanted by Interpol for money laundering, but Bush protects him.
US has sharply cut development aid for all Sub-Sahara Africa, including Chad, and sharply increased arms shipments. The region of southern Sudan from the Upper Nile to the borders of Chad is rich in oil.
US oil companies have known about Sudan’s oil since the early 1970’s. In 1979, Jafaar Nimeiry, Sudan head of state, broke with the Soviets and invited Chevron to develop oil in the Sudan. UN Ambassador George H.W. Bush personally told Nimeiry about satellite photos indicating oil in Sudan. Nimeiry took the bait, which was a fatal mistake. Ever since then, the USA has made sure that the region has been torn by war.
Chevron spent $1.2 billion finding and testing big oil reserves in southern Sudan. Those reserves triggered Sudan’s second civil war in 1983. Chevron was target of repeated attacks and killings, and had to suspend the project in 1984. In 1992, Chevron sold its Sudanese oil concessions. In 1999, China began to develop the abandoned Chevron fields with notable results.
Now Chevron wants back in.
Condi Rice is from Chevron. Chevron is in neighboring Chad, together with ExxonMobil. They’ve just built a $3.7 billion oil pipeline that carries 160,000 barrels/day of oil from Doba in central Chad near Darfur Sudan, via Cameroon to Kribi on the Atlantic Ocean, destined for US refineries.
Chevron and the World Bank worked with Chad dictator Idriss Deby, who feeds US-supplied arms to the Darfur rebels. Deby joined Washington’s Pan Sahel Initiative run by the Pentagon’s US-European Command, to train his troops to fight “Islamic terrorism.” (Most of Bush's victims in the Darfur region are Islamic.)
In 2004, supplied with US military aid, training and weapons, Deby launched the initial strike that set off the conflict in Darfur, using members of his elite Presidential Guard. The U.S. provided all-terrain vehicles, arms, and anti-aircraft guns, which were forwarded to Darfur rebels, who are fighting the Khartoum government in the southwest Sudan. The US military support to Deby was the actual the trigger for the current bloodbath in Darfur. Khartoum reacted, and the ensuing debacle was unleashed in full tragic force.
The “Darfur genocide” propaganda campaign is camouflage for the oil grab. It began in 2003, when the Chad-Cameroon pipeline oil began to flow. The USA had secured a base in Chad, and wanted to go after Darfur oil, cutting China out of the picture.
As part of the oil grab, the USA and israel supply Uganda, Chad, and Ethiopia. These countries surround Sudan, and are at war with Sudan. The war in Sudan involves both US covert operations and US trained “rebel” factions coming in from South Sudan, Chad, Ethiopia and Uganda.
Now Bush's puppet, Chad, is moving toward China . Recently Chad's dictator, Idriss Deby, demanded a bigger piece of the oil profits. In early 2006 he sought more of the oil revenues to finance military operations and beef up Chad’s army. In response, Paul Wolfowitz at the World Bank suspended loans to Chad. Therefore Deby created Chad’s own oil company, SHT, and threatened to expel Chevron and Malaysia’s Petronas for not paying taxes owed. Deby wanted a 60% share of the Chad oil pipeline. In the end, he came to terms with the oil companies.
(The USA probably threatened him with invasion. – AZ)
Deby also faces growing internal opposition from a Chad rebel group, United Front for Change, known under its French name as FUC, which he claims is being covertly funded by Sudan. The FUC has based itself in Darfur.
Now comes China with mountains of money for Chad, with no interest, and no strings attached. China is buying Chad's oil outright. Thus, Chad is beginning to rethink its puppet status. It is moving toward China, which gives money freely, and acts fairly. In return, Chad's oil is starting to go to China.
In late January, Chinese President Hu Jintao made a state visit to Sudan and to Cameroon, plus other African states. In 2006, China’s leaders visited 48 African states. In August 2006 Beijing hosted Chad’s Foreign Minister for talks and resumption of formal diplomatic ties cut in 1997. China has begin to import oil from Chad as well as Sudan.
The Chinese economic largesse in Chad is far more effective in calming the fighting and displacement in Darfur than troops from Bush and the oil companies.
Oil is the prime factor in US Africa policy today. Bush’s interest in Africa includes a new US base in Sao Tome/Principe 124 miles off the Gulf of Guinea, from which Washington can control Gulf of Guinea oilfields from Angola in the south to Congo, Gabon, Equitorial Guinea, Cameroon and Nigeria. That is the very same areas where recent Chinese diplomatic and investment activity has focused. Hence the Pentagon has created a new command division called AFRICOM.
Source:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20070520...
COMMENT
When grabbing oil or any other resource, the standard U.S. plan goes like this…
Install a dictator.
If that doesn’t work, trigger a civil war.
If that doesn’t work, invade to give the country “democracy.”
In Darfar, Sudan, we are between stages two and three.
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The Pentagon’s AFRICOM, is being set up by Deputy Under Secretary for Defense Policy Ryan Henry, as islamservices told us six days ago.
(http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/1653 )
See my comments (after that post) about who Ryan is and how he works.
He is with Science Applications International, a ruthless military contractor.
Quite a long read but very interesting.
I've also heard of Darfur genocide, including George Clooney's speech on C-Span and in newspaper non-profit ads. Celebrities also tried to help bring the spotlight on the crisis.
GlobalResearch goes further by digging deeper to expose the cause of the Darfur genocide which USA and Europe would rather ignore, just like Rwanda genocide in 1994.
Amazing. Explains why oil is called "black gold" - kill and bribe people to grab oil reserves.
The Oil Factor documentary is a good primer on the motives behind the fabled "War on Terror".
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