The International Report
May 26th, 2022
14 Killed in Chinese Consulate Riot in Kafistrop, PRC Vows “Swift restoration of order”
RONDON, KAFISTROP - The People's Republic of China's Foreign Ministry condemned a riot in Rondon yesterday in the capital city of Rondon that killed 14 protesters and injured dozens more. The PRC reported two consulate staff members were injured during the incident, but otherwise no fatalities.
Photo by Nassor Koury, TIR - 2022"This demonstration of disdain for order in favor of crude barbarism towards the PRC and its devotion to fruitful relations with Kafistrop will not stand. Our commitment to the investment and mutual gain of both our countries is beyond reproach, and such flagrant disregard for convention and diplomacy marks a dark day for both our countries..." the PRC Deputy Foreign Minister Deng Tu stated in a press conference yesterday.
Chinese interest met opportunity mutually beneficial for them and the African nation of Kafistrop in late 2009 at the turn of new maritime projection and regional influence initiatives hinted at by the Politburo during an annual conference in Beijing, as well as a direct move aimed at expanding sea power & power projection capabilities from the Horn of Africa, across the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea & in direct competition to US/UK-led international maritime security efforts by way of the Combined Maritime Forces (CMF), based out of the Kingdom of Bahrain. Shortly thereafter, several significant investments from some of China's largest industrial construction firms were announced, with seaport renovations and maritime shipping infrastructure updates beginning the following year, becoming operational in mid-2011. To top off the port infrastructure development and $80M trade deal between Kafistrop and China, then-Prime Minster of Kafistrop Faris Zawan landed an estimated $2.61 billion dollar-valued annual lease as the managing investor and security provider for the port, though the actual funds paid to Kafistrop has been estimated to be significantly lower, as the PRC had resorted to writing much of the paid cost in the form of sustained military presence and transfer of hardware to the nation.
Fast forward to 2019, where a previously minor public disapproval of the influx of Chinese money and infrastructure has turned into full-blown organized dissent against the Kafistropi government, with anger split between government corruption and the seemingly unaddressed malnutrition and food shortage issues that have plagued every nation of the Horn, including Kafistrop, for decades. United Nations humanitarian assistance operations began in 2017, though with faltering effectiveness and increasing indicators of the country becoming a failed state, US and European-based humanitarian NGOs were becoming less frequent, and in last 2018, the United States began taking a more active role in peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance operations, until engagements between US military forces and Kafistropi military personnel began to occur. Around the same time, the Chinese began to limit trade, while also shifting the presence of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) forces stationed at the port. However, several military analysts familiar with the events, as well as a spokesperson with the Pentagon argued instead that the Chinese military continued trade with Kafistrop during this time, providing material support by way of small arms and heavy weapons to the nation, many of which were used against US military personnel throughout the conflict. After a series of seemingly benign incidents between the Kafistropi Elite Guard Corps and US forces deployed in central Kafistrop, the government of
Kafistrop announced a formal declaration of war against US and UN peacekeeping forces remaining in the country, while simultaneously attacking military and distribution infrastructure being utilized by US forces, the most significant of which included an insider-initiated attack at an airbase in the Anizay Province, forcing the withdrawal of more than a battalion's worth of US forces operating out of the airbase as a result.
The US intervention in Kafistrop concluded in late 2019 after the seizure of the capital, and ushered in a period of peace and rebuilding afterward, however, the PRC's return to the country was marred by the lack of support against dissidents in the months preceding the conflict, and also by the very concept of "business" in the form of China's "exploitation of Kafistrop without regard" to the people of the country. Protests and public disapproval of continued Chinese presence, even on a diplomatic note, have continued since the reopening of their consulate in early 2020, and with this latest loss of life, the situation is sure to get worse.
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