 AP Photo Sudan and South Sudan's slow, deadly war of blood-for-oil reserves has ensnared Africa's slyest empire builder: Communist China. The two Sudans' complex background helps illustrate China's emerging diplomatic quandaries in resource-rich but politically fractured sub-Saharan Africa. . .
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