Author: Jonathan HOLSLAG.

Groping for stones to cross the river, that how China is testing and conceiving its role and position as a rapidly developing world power. Sudan’s scorching arid region of Darfur is one of the focal points where diverging interests merge into an awkward and often confusing learning process. Here, Beijing has to manoeuvre its pressing economic interests in a way that avoids collision with competitors and circumvents the pitfalls related to local instability and insecurity.