China stands to gain increased influence in Sudan and Africa at large if it funds the country’s reconstruction.  Sudan’s prolonged civil war is a humanitarian disaster that’s left 400,000 people dead ...

That distinction is easy to miss in Washington, where analysts often assume that geopolitical competition works like a running scoreboard: if the United States loses, China must win, and vice versa.

China is distraught about the collapse of the Iranian regime, but their hands are tied by diplomatic and economic concerns.