{"id":199505,"date":"2025-06-04T13:37:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T11:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-chinas-hidden-hands-how-chinese-weapons-are-fueling-both-side-of-sudans-war\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T13:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T11:37:58","slug":"sudan-chinas-hidden-hands-how-chinese-weapons-are-fueling-both-side-of-sudans-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-chinas-hidden-hands-how-chinese-weapons-are-fueling-both-side-of-sudans-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: China&#8217;s Hidden Hands &#8211; How Chinese Weapons Are Fueling Both Side of Sudan&#8217;s War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">New evidence reveals Chinese-manufactured weapons are being used by both the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan&#8217;s ongoing conflict &#8211; a brutal war that has displaced millions and killed thousands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Despite Beijing&#8217;s declared neutrality and repeated calls for dialogue, Chinese arms are surfacing on both sides of the battlefield, raising questions about China&#8217;s real position&#8211;and whether it is knowingly enabling the war through state-linked companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506040215.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New evidence reveals Chinese-manufactured weapons are being used by both the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan&#8217;s ongoing conflict &#8211; a brutal war that has displaced millions and killed thousands. Despite Beijing&#8217;s declared neutrality and repeated calls for dialogue, Chinese arms are surfacing on both sides of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":199506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,9889,435,6640,7888,9101,257,10473,254,4708,1613,8105,6618,5122],"class_list":["post-199505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chinas","tag-chinese","tag-fueling","tag-hands","tag-hidden","tag-news","tag-side","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-war","tag-weapons"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}