A Study On Sino-Sudanese Oil Cooperation

Sino-Sudanese oil cooperation has been an international focus recent years. It has borne too much significance in a special historical period, though as a normal economic relationship between two developing countries from the start. The cooperation is still new to most of Chinese people and to the domestic sphere of learning. In search of China's continuous development and the South-South cooperation, the cooperation which has happened between China and Sudan in the field of petroleum, should and will be given more deepened researches.There are six subjects about the theme of Sino-Sudanese Oil Cooperation in this dissertation:historical origins and contrasting the two countries'oil industry developments; the formation and the mode estimation of the oil cooperating project; the political effects related; the management of non-market factors in the transnational operation; the game of international discourse rights between China and Western countries; and the consummation of China's foreign policy conceptions.Not including the preface and the conclusion, the text consists of six chapters, which probe into different subjects separately in a unified logical way.The first chapter analyzes the similarities and differences between oil industry development processes in China and Sudan respectively. It aims to draw more close attention to the continent of Africa and the state of Sudan, especially to Sudan's oil industry development, to the upgrading and deepening of the traditional Sino-Sudanese relationship, and to the upheavals the oil cooperation has experienced among nations. This chapter holds that the Sino-Sudanese oil cooperation be an outstanding historical instance, incarnating the typical spirit of South-South cooperation by a remarkable coincidence.The second chapter illustrates the background and the follow-up concrete process of Sino-Sudanese oil cooperation, describes the layout of the project, and then analyzes the mode and the management. This chapter lays special stress on the cooperation's economic nature that makes the basis for the arguments in the dissertation. It holds that the Sino-Sudanese oil cooperation project should be a symbol for China's oil corporations to practice the Strategy of "Going Out".The third chapter interprets the Sino-Sudanese oil cooperation under the perspective of China's entire strategy of overseas oil cooperation, involving some analyses of multinational factors, including China, Sudanese government, the US, Russia, France, Japan, India, Sudan's domestic political parties and groups, Sudan's peripheral neighboring countries etc. It holds that it is the Sino-Sudanese oil cooperation that has straightforward promoted China's entire strategy of overseas oil cooperation into the mature period promptly.The fourth chapter expounds a series of new administering topics manifested by the Sino-Sudanese oil cooperation, in order to provide Chinese state-owned enterprises (especially state-owned oil and gas companies) and other firms operating overseas for reference. The topics separately are:the macro-micro mechanist transformation, the control of environmental risks (political, economic and social) and the community responsibility taking etc, rather different from those of China's domestic economic management. The case of the GNPOC, in which the CNPC (Sudanese) plays the key role, shows valuable enlightenments for China's corporations that hope to work overseas successfully.Based on discourse logic analyses, the fifth chapter makes a fundamental study on the game issue of international discourse rights between China and the developed Western countries, reflected by Sino-Sudanese oil cooperation. How to interpret the inner links among the issues of Darfur, race, oil and the Beijing Olympic Games, deeply processed by the Western discourse mechanism, and how the links have exerted much influence on international affairs, belong to the scope of inquiry. It argues that non-benefit principles should be introduced into the current definition of international discourse rights, balanced with benefit ones; the Western discourse logic remains the same, putting undue stress on benefit principles; large numbers of innovations are urgently needed in the consummating of international discourse rights of China, Sudan and other developing countries.The sixth chapter demonstrates all sorts of hard trials Sino-Sudan oil cooperation has experienced since it was established over 10 years ago. The Darfur crisis led to new composition processes of China's foreign policy conceptions, because of the oil relationship and the fact that the West began to covet Sudan's oil resources. These processes include:the one between adhering to the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence and participating in local governance of friendly nations, mainly focusing on relations with the developing countries; and the one between the tactic of "capacity hiding and time biding" and the relatively enterprising tact, mainly aiming at relations with the developed Western countries. It should be urgently strengthened to promote practical intercourses between the developed countries and the developing countries, and between the developing countries themselves. It should be insisted on to rationally use the existent multilateral mechanism between China and the developed Western countries, and the developing countries, in an effort to add more to the profound intension of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. This chapter holds that the step of China's strategy of overseas oil cooperation getting mature, should be simultaneously the process of China's diplomacy achieving the "macro-diplomacy" through the twofold conceptual compositions.The last part summarizes and systemizes all the arguments in this dissertation.