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HOME > PAST ISSUE > SPECIAL REPORT [Premium content]March 2007
Human rights issues are no deal-breaker when it comes to Chinese oil firms investing abroad. But could US courts hold them to account?
When President Hu Jintao arrived in Sudan early February, his ears were ringing with US calls for progress on human rights issues in the country. But by the time Hu left Khartoum, Sudan's leaders had seen US$70 million in debts wiped off the books and had US$12.8 million to spend on a new presidential palace.
With 200,000 dead in Darfur over four years, 2.5 million more homeless and the government skeptical about UN peacekeepers, the international community is running out of ...
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