China peacekeepers aim to change image in Darfur
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On one shoulder, Lt. Liu Jinzhao has a sky-blue UN patch signifying membership in a Chinese peacekeeping unit destined for Darfur. On the other shoulder, there is a rather large chip.
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BEIJING, Jan. 10 -- China on Thursday rejected any attempts to connect humanitarian concerns about Darfur to the upcoming Beijing Olympics, saying they come from people unwilling to view objectively China's role in that embattled region of Sudan.
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China urged the international community on Thursday to show patience with Sudan over the strife in its Darfur region, as an advocacy group called on Beijing to take more action to pressure Khartoum.
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China, India and Pakistan are considering contributing troops to a peacekeeping force for Sudan's Darfur region , a U.N. diplomat said Saturday, after Sudan accepted the possibility of non-African soldiers in the mission.
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Senior diplomats from the United States and China launched a broad dialogue Wednesday expected to touch on a range of issues from Beijing&#39;s military build-up to its human rights record and help in ending the Darfur conflict.
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A small number of U.S. troops have been working with the African Union military observer mission in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, the State Department said Wednesday, highlighting the U.S. role in peace efforts.
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China warned Tuesday that "unbridled pressure" would worsen the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, after critics including Hollywood director Steven Spielberg accused Beijing of not doing enough to bring an end to the suffering.
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Sudan has accepted a United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force of up to 23,000 troops and police for Darfur but some U.N. diplomats fear conditions may be attached.
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BEIJING, Jan. 10 -- China on Thursday rejected any connection between humanitarian concerns in Darfur and the upcoming Beijing Olympics, saying attempts to link them come from people unwilling to view China's role objectively in that embattled region of Sudan.
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ARDAMATA CAMP, Sudan  - Dusty Darfuri children dashed after the U.N. and African Union vehicles laughing and copying new Philippines police who gave good-natured peace signs.
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Sudan will watch from a distance on Monday as world powers, including ally China, gather in Paris to seek ways to end the violence in Darfur, in a conference Khartoum rejects as a distraction from current peace efforts.
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European foreign ministers are expected to confront China over the Darfur conflict at a meeting of top diplomats from 46 EU and Asian nations that gets underway here on Monday.
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China is willing to play a more constructive role in Darfur, an envoy said, offering to provide more aid to victims of the Sudan conflict critics say Beijing has ignored.
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China's special envoy on Darfur said Thursday his country will seriously consider sending troops for a peacekeeping mission in the war-torn Sudanese region and insisted Beijing is doing its best to help solve the conflict.
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China, home to the world&#39;s largest standing army, said Monday it would modernize its military to better face down threats from an independence-minded Taiwan and increased global uncertainty.
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International pressure was on China to try its hand at peace diplomacy as Chinese President Hu Jintao headed to war-racked Sudan, the highlight of an eight-nation tour of Africa.
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Sudanese Islamist leaders say they   will take up arms against United Nations peacekeepers if they   deploy to Darfur, and some have warned they will also fight the   Khartoum government if it agrees to the force.