{"id":12697,"date":"2015-09-27T11:44:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T16:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12697"},"modified":"2015-09-27T11:44:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T16:44:48","slug":"us-on-the-ropes-china-to-join-russian-military-in-syria-while-iraq-strikes-intel-deal-with-moscow-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12697","title":{"rendered":"US On The Ropes: China To Join Russian Military In Syria While Iraq Strikes Intel Deal With Moscow, Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-09-27\/us-ropes-china-join-russian-military-syria-while-iraq-strikes-intel-deal-moscow-tehr\" target=\"_blank\">US On The Ropes: China To Join Russian Military In Syria While Iraq Strikes Intel Deal With Moscow, Tehran<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Last Thursday,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-09-24\/chinese-military-personnel-aerial-assets-allegedly-en-route-syria\">we asked<\/a>\u00a0if China was set to join Russia and Iran in support of the Assad regime in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Our interest was piqued when the pro-Assad Al-Masdar (citing an unnamed SAA \u201csenior officer\u201d), said Chinese \u201cpersonnel and aerial assets\u201d are set to arrive within weeks. To the uninitiated, this may seem to have come out of left field, so to speak. However, anyone who has followed the conflict and who knows a bit about the global balance of power is aware that Beijing has for some time expressed its support for Damascus, most notably by voting with Russia to veto a Security Council resolution that would have seen the conflict in Syria referred to the Hague. Here\u2019s what China had to say at the May 22, 2014 meeting:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><em>For some time now, the Security Council has maintained unity and coordination on the question of Syria, thanks to efforts by Council members, including China, to accommodate the major concerns of all parties. At a time when seriously diverging views exist among the parties concerning the draft resolution, we believe that the Council should continue holding consultations, rather than forcing a vote on the draft resolution, in order to avoid undermining Council unity or obstructing coordination and cooperation on questions such as Syria and other major serious issues. Regrettably, China\u2019s approach has not been taken on board; China therefore voted against the draft resolution.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, China could see the writing on the wall and it, like Russia, was not pleased with where things seemed to be headed. A little more than a year later and Moscow has effectively called time on the strategy of using Sunni extremist groups to destabilize Assad and given what we know about Beijing\u2019s efforts to project China\u2019s growing military might, it wouldn\u2019t exactly be surprising to see the PLA turn up at Latakia as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US On The Ropes: China To Join Russian Military In Syria While Iraq Strikes Intel Deal With Moscow, Tehran Last Thursday,\u00a0we asked\u00a0if China was set to join Russia and Iran in support of the Assad regime in Syria. Our interest was piqued when the pro-Assad Al-Masdar (citing an unnamed SAA \u201csenior officer\u201d), said Chinese \u201cpersonnel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3218,130,441,522,542,694,776,2662,9324,862,4318],"class_list":["post-12697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-bashar-al-assad","tag-china","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-moscow","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-tehran","tag-un-security-council","tag-war","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12698,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12697\/revisions\/12698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}