Tng Ying Hui

Chi­na “needs both coun­tries”, as South Su­dan has the oil, and Su­dan has the pipelines and re­fin­ing equip­ment.

Do­mes­tic pol­i­tics will nec­es­sar­i­ly com­pli­cate the diplo­mat­ic ma­noeu­vers in North­east Asia, writes Tng Ying Hui.

Years of the gov­ern­ment’s un­yield­ing re­straint and ma­nip­u­la­tion over cit­i­zen’s lives are un­like­ly to end.