China's business ties to the loathed Camara junta could quickly backfire
Beijing's Foreign Ministry officials are energetically distancing
themselves from a US$7 billion minerals deal announced on 9 October
by the increasingly isolated military regime in Guinea with the
Hong-Kong based China International Fund. Without some fast diplomatic
footwork, China could again face excoriation for helping to finance
a murderous regime, five years after an international campaign
began pressuring Beijing over military and financial links to
the Sudanese regime and massacres in Darfur....
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