{"id":7801,"date":"2020-01-28T09:06:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T06:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7801"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:49","slug":"chinas-approach-to-peace-in-africa-is-different-how-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/01\/28\/chinas-approach-to-peace-in-africa-is-different-how-and-why\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Approach To Peace In Africa Is Different. How And Why"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Steven C Y Kuo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China has steadily increased its participation in United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations in Africa since its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cips-cepi.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/30YearsofChinesePeacekeeping-FINAL-Jan23-1.pdf\">first mission in 1989<\/a>, when the UN monitored the independence of Namibia&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/peacekeeping.un.org\/sites\/default\/files\/past\/untag.htm\">from South Africa<\/a>. Its funding and personnel have both grown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2019 China contributed $7 billion to UN peacekeeping, which accounted for 15.22% of the global peacekeeping budget. This was up from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/a\/201909\/26\/WS5d8bfa01a310cf3e3556d7f3.html\">10.28% in 2018<\/a>&nbsp;and makes it the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/peacekeeping.un.org\/en\/china\">second largest financial contributor<\/a>&nbsp;after the US. Of the 14 current UN peacekeeping missions, seven are in Africa, which absorbs about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/press\/en\/2019\/gaab4328.doc.htm\">two thirds of the budget<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China has 2,458 military and police personnel serving in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/peacekeeping.un.org\/en\/china,%20namely%20South%20Sudan,%20Mali,%20Lebanon,%20Darfur,%20DRC,%20Western%20Sahara,%20Middle%20East%20and%20Cyprus\">eight missions around the globe<\/a>. This is far more than the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/peacekeeping.un.org\/en\/troop-and-police-contributors\">combined contribution of personnel<\/a>\u00a0by the other four permanent members on the UN Security Council \u2013 Russia, the US, France and Britain. <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/chinas-approach-to-peace-in-africa-is-different-how-and-why-129467\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Steven C Y Kuo China has steadily increased its participation in United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations in Africa since its&nbsp;first mission in 1989, when the UN monitored the independence&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}