China syndrome in South Sudan

The Chinese may be making faster inroads into Africa than India, but the China phobia runs strong in some countries on that continent. According to an Indian businessman who visited South Sudan capital Juba, a ramshackle town with one hotel charging $500 a night and where the army polices the streets at night, a sign outside the government’s offices read, “No Chinese allowed”. This was after the country discovered an underground pipeline built by the Chinese that ran parallel to an overland pipeline taking crude oil out of the country to a port in North Sudan, from which the country recently split.