MESOPOTAMIA NEWS FLASH : THE COMMUNIST CHINA ON ASSAD’S SIDE
Chinese Ambassador To Syria: The Two Countries Have A Golden Opportunity To Strengthen Their Ties (MEMRI 11 Sept 2018)
On August 5, 2018, China’s Ambassador in Syria, Qi Qianjin, published an article in the pro-regime Syrian daily Al-Watanfocusing on relations between China and the Arab world. He wrote that these relations have entered a new era of enhanced strategic cooperation and that China is interested in playing a larger role in bringing peace and stability to the region. As for China’s relations with Syria, the ambassador stated that, since the beginning of the Syria crisis, his country has been extending “diplomatic and humanitarian” support to the Syrian people, and that the achievements of the Syrian armed forces have strengthened the regime’s stability. China, he added, wants to deepen the cooperation between the two countries on the political, military, economic and social levels, and to take part in the rebuilding of Syria.
It should be noted that this article was published several days after Ambassador Qianjin told Al-Watan that the Chinese military would be willing to participate “in some way” in the regime’s campaign in Idlib. China later denied this claim, stating that Qianjin’s remarks had been mistranslated. www.mesop.de