In recent years, the Middle Kingdom has indeed been placed in the middle of a heated and global debate on the international community’s involvement in complex emergencies. More specifically, global media outlets (as well as celebrities, athletes, and international organizations) have often cited the People’s Republic of China’s growing involvement in the domestic affairs of African nations and its simultaneous refusal to intervene in the complex emergency that has developed in the Darfur region of Sudan. It is generally accepted that global media have an impact on the decisions that powerful states make regarding humanitarian interventions, though the degree of that impact may vary depending on other factors. When this theory on the relationship between humanitarian interventions and global media is put forth, however, the states in question are generally ones that have well-established and relatively free systems of media dissemination.

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