China's kung fu peace-keepers head for Darfur

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Source: The Sunday Telegraph

By Richard Spencer in Qinyang
Last Updated: 2:30am BST 17/09/2007

With kung fu, automatic rifles and armoured personnel carriers, China showed off its new-found power this weekend, and how it says it intends to use it for good in the world.

The country accused of supporting genocide in Sudan's strife-torn Darfur announced it is planning to send peace-keepers to the region next month.


Soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army train in preparation for their deployment in Darfur as part of the UN force there

It also invited the outside world, in the form of Beijing's resident foreign media, to meet the team in a display of growing openness about its military, the world's largest in terms of numbers.

The force is small: just 315 engineers, medics and camp guards out of a total United Nations peace-keeping force of 26,000.

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