China hasn’t yet sent 700 soldiers to join a UN peacekeeping force in South Sudan to protect oil fields and workers, Reuters reported, citing a UN official. A report yesterday from The Wall Street Journal quoted a spokesman for South Sudan’s president as saying the airlift was already underway and would be completed in several days. Today a spokesman for the UN mission in South Sudan said no date or deployment area had been set for the airlift, and denied that the peacekeepers were protecting industry infrastructure. China, which is the biggest investor in the country’s oil industry, has played an unusually active diplomatic role in South Sudan.
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