In Chapter XXIII, the Japanese aid worker Noriyaki is approached by a refugee who mistakes him for being Malaysian and/or Chinese, and accuses his government of "making this war worse."
These issues are still big in the news today. Determine what the refugee's complaint was, and then search on the internet for a news article linking China and/or Malaysia with Sudan. Post the website, and explain briefly what you learned and whether you think these countries are ethical in their dealings with Sudan.
A good place to look for news articles is Google News Search:
http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn
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http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=17336
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/sudan1103/26.htm
I hate the fact that just because we Asians have rose peach skin, doesn't mean that we are all Chinese. Whenever that happens to me I get mad, but then again i am half Chinese and half Cambodian. The complaint with the Sudanese was that he wanted Noriyaki to talk to his government to stop them from buying and supporting that Sudanese government during this war. The Chinese are buying the oil and suppling the government with weapons and the man wanted Noriyaki to represent them since he did have a voice on them.
"CHINA’S INVOLVEMENT IN SUDAN: ARMS AND OIL"
What I learned from the second article that i posted, was that china supplied weapons and oil trade was to just expand the government- owned business into foreign investments. The China government has been suppling the Sudanese government with weapons such as helicopters, tanks, ammunition,etc, since 1995. They were also the major supplier of antipersonnel and antitank during the 1980,s. The main reason why China went to Sudan for the crude oil was to acquire the needs for foreign reserves and they had already reached its peak in the increasing demands for more oil.
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