South Sudan: US moves to cut China out of billion+ dollar investment deal. American boots on the ground NOW.

“South Sudan will give Chinese companies the opportunity to invest in the Republic of South Sudan in the areas of petroleum and mining industries, and also in other economic circles,” the country’s oil and mining minister Stephen Dhieu Dau said as he announced the assistance from Beijing in September.

The deal also involved talks about China lending the impoverished fledgling state between $1 billion (€730 million) and $2 billion (€1.46 billion) for badly needed road, power and agriculture projects.


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