Oil is now cheaper then it was priced in 2009,and it is one of the worlds most valuable traded raw commodity,this has the power to lift entire countries or bring them down,China has spent billions in the Sudan on entire pipelines to bring the crude from the southern oil fields to it's northern ports then ship it into China,add a civil war in 2011 that split Sudan,and now China intends to send 700 Chinese Infantry into Sudan to help the Chinese peace keepers that have been there from early January,interesting times..