China and India have been crisscrossing the globe making financially and politically costly deals to try to lock up the output of new oil-producing countries. For example, when Western countries discouraged their oil companies from dealing with Sudan’s government because of its inadequate response to the genocide in Darfur, China was quick to buy up the country’s oil.
中印两国一直在全球各地往返奔波，签署在经济上和政治上都是成本巨大的协议来试图锁定新的产油国的产油。例如，当西方国家由于苏丹对发生在达尔福尔的种族灭绝反应不利而阻止它们的石油公司同苏丹政府打交道时，中国当即购买了该国的石油。