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To: LindyBill who wrote (78425)	10/17/2004 4:02:16 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793957

Instapundit - DARFUR UPDATE: China is trying to stop the United Nations imposing sanctions on Sudan over the crisis in the Darfur regionto protect its oil imports from the country, say western diplomats. For the past six years Beijing has been the Sudanese government's main backer, buying 70 per cent of its exports, servicing its $20bn debt and supplying the Khartoum government with most of its weapons. Beijing oil imports jumped 35 per cent this year and its reliance on a growing number of rogue states to meet its needs is putting it on a collision course with the United States. Sudan and Iran together supply 20 per cent of China's oil imports, and if economic sanctions were applied to either, Beijing would be unable to sustain its high growth rates. Another reason why multilateral diplomacy via the UN is unlikely to address either problem.