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"China Has No Reason To Rush To The Frontlines": Beijing Denies Syria "Rumors"

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In the weeks since Moscow joined the fight in Syria, in the process lending Iran’s ground troops a rather powerful hand in the form of airstrikes by the Russian air force juggernaut, there have been two questions on everyone’s mind, i) how would Washington respond?, and ii) will China get involved? 

As for the first question, the US has responded in the only way they could given the situation the West and its allies got themselves into: with a confused message about how the US can’t accept Russia’s invite to coordinate efforts because somehow Moscow’s involvement is going to create more terrorism. 

With regard to the China, early reports indicated that Beijing was indeed considering some manner of military “support.” For instance, late last month the pro-Assad Al-Masdar news said the following:

On Tuesday morning, a Chinese naval vessel reportedly traveled through Egypt’s Suez Canal to enter the Mediterranean Sea; its destination was not confirmed.

 

However, according to a senior officer in the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) that is stationed inside the Syrian coastal city of Latakia, Chinese military personnel and aerial assets are scheduled to arrive in the coming weeks (6 weeks) to the port-city of Tartous – he could not provide any more detail.

Three days later, Pravda reported that “according to Russian Senator Igor Morozov, Beijing has taken decision to take part in combating IS and sent its vessels to the Syrian coast."

"It is known, that China has joined our military operation in Syria, the Chinese cruiser has already entered the Mediterranean, aircraft carrier follows it," Morozov allegedly said.

Needless to say, if China were to join Russia and Iran in support of Assad in military operations against anti-regime elements, it would be a further embarrassment for Washington which is keen to pretend that it can counter what’s been pitched as military aggression on Beijing’s part in the South China. That is, were China to go into Syria while the US stood by and watched, it would send a message to Washington’s regional allies in the South Pacific that other than promising to send some ships to sail around the Spratlys, there’s really not much the Pentagon can or at least is willing, to do.

But China is well aware that a dying hegemon is still a hegemon and while Beijing has made great strides over the past several years in terms of raising its presence on the world stage, simply invading Syria at the drop of a hat is a move that seems a bit too crass for Xi Jinping given his recent trip to the US and desire to promote social stability at home.

Predictably, the Chinese are now out denying the Syria “rumors”. Here’s Reuters:

China said on Wednesday it had no plans to send military ships to Syria to fight with Russian forces after reports in overseas media that it was planning to do so.

 

Chinese media has picked up Russian and Middle Eastern news reports that China would fight alongside Russia in

 

Syria, and that China's sole aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, could participate too.

 

Chinese media has also described these reports as speculative nonsense.

 

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying, when asked if China had or would send forces to Syria, told a daily news briefing that she had also noticed the reports.

 

"I can tell you that as for China's warships, for example the Liaoning, whether it has gone to join, for this issue, as far as I know, there is no such plan. At this time the Liaoning is in a phase of carrying out technical training and military exercises."

 

The Global Times, an influential tabloid run by the ruling Communist Party's official People's Daily, said in an editorial on Wednesday it was "unfounded rumour" that China would interfere militarily in Syria.

 

"It's not China that brought chaos to Syria, and China has no reason to rush to the frontlines and play a confrontational role," it said.

Remember, China has voted with Russia on the Security Council when it comes to Syria and there is no question which side Beijing supports. 

Also, note that while the Politburo’s mouthpiece may have dismissed the reports as “speculative nonsense”, the other language there isn’t quite as committal and as we saw in Yemen, the PLA occasionally shows up out of the blue in surprising places. Besides Yemen, we've seen a plethora of examples this year of the PLA navy actively seeking to showcase China's maritime prowess including a pass by the Alaska coast, the planned deployment of a nuclear sub, and of course the creation of 3,000 acres of new sovereign territory in the Spratlys. As brazen as it most certainly would be, another great way to make a splash (no pun intended), would be to send an aircraft carrier to Syria. 

We'll leave you with the following headline from Interfax:

  • CSTO, Iran, China agree on joint counteraction to ISIL

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Maybe they'll just send the girls from Fiery Cross...

 

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Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:17 | 6668898 I Write Code
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Saruman is sending 10,000 orcs.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:28 | 6668936 o r c k
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10,001

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:34 | 6668948 Latina Lover
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Of course China has no reason to rush to the frontlines: the ISIS head choppers are running like scared rabbits away from the Russians, Iranians and Syrians. The head choppers understand that the USSA will not help them because Amerika needs deniability, LOL.  Instead, if the going gets hot, the USSA will always abandon them.  Worse than being an enemy of Amerika, is to be her ally.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 19:14 | 6668989 ZerOhead
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The ISIS headchoppers are actually massing on the Afghanistan/Tajikistan border... and they are recruiting the Taliban who are being trained for ISIS by the US once again. (Will the insanity ever end?)

Turns out after taliban leader Mullah Omar died he was then replaced by Mullah Mansoor who is a known Pakistani ISI asset. Many other taliban left because of this. That of course means the CIA is likely running him.

If ISIS/Taliban/US invade Tajikistan at some point then they will be on the border of  CHINA and could end up allying with the Uigars in a direct conflict within China. Then an entry into Syria by China would be happily supported by the Chinese population and that would help the globalists set up the nuclear confrontation between East and West required to help get their NWO party started.

http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2015/10/13/the-new-great-game-round-up-o...

 

Now if you'll excuse me I've got to go book a flight to Fiery Cross...

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 19:21 | 6669119 Latina Lover
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You have correctly pointed out that China has key strategic reasons to destroy ISIS.  l'll bet that they are watching Syria very closely, and planning to strike Uigar extremists.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 19:38 | 6669169 spyware-free
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China will wait until after this provocation by the US Navy passes.
If WWIII is not started in the South China Sea in the next few weeks they will look at battle testing their armaments in Syria under the pretext of attacking Uigar terrorists.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 21:14 | 6669451 ZerOhead
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They will wait until they can get their own citizens to solidly support a military intervention in Syria. Every provocation from the US in the meantime will be extensively broadcast to prepare their sheep for what lies ahead.

If the "Pivot to Asia" plan is still in effect (as I believe it is) then Tajikistan will likely be burned and bombed into the ground by ISIS plus Taliban & Friends shortly...

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 19:43 | 6669179 agNau
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Lots of vacuums. For cleaning up oatmeal no doubt.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:49 | 6669009 trulz4lulz
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Those arent orcs.....them are a rare form of elf.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:18 | 6668901 Consuelo
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Chinese women are exquisite - as are many other women of the Orient.    They just got no ass to speak of...

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 00:48 | 6669884 zhandax
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One of their strong points, trust me.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 01:32 | 6669930 Shipwrecked
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Re: They just got no ass to speak of...

I beg to differ. They will loose competition to Walmart whales, but if climbing the meat mountain is not your thing, there is plenty of stuff in the right proportion in the right places... At least in my own experience.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 01:33 | 6669931 Shipwrecked
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Dup.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:21 | 6668910 Blankone
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Wait, did not the recently (and often) quoted and referenced sit debka ? tell us that the Chinese ship was already docked at a Syrian port?

It's funny, when some of those rumors start to run and debka is referenced, I have found that the subsequent articles in the msm have a disclaimer such as "a reported by the world military experts at debka" or something like that.  They all point back to one source, debka.

 

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:32 | 6668952 fudge
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debka, bellingcat, free whatever syria shit are all garbage, any one who believes what these shit show sites post is a fucking fool.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 21:02 | 6669409 alphahammer
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Wrong. Bellingcat is THE shit. 

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:53 | 6669023 Oldrepublic
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I went out on a limb a couple of weeks ago and said that I could find nothing in open sources that would indicated that the Chinese,ex Soviet,Ukraine aircraft carrier was in Syrian waters

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:30 | 6668944 NubianSundance
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For those who may be interested the latest Jim Willie interview has an interesting take vis a vis the Saudi invasion of Yemen.

http://youtu.be/E5YL_YOL8HA

Begin at 25 mins in for this piece

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 18:37 | 6668967 yomutti
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"Russian Air Force juggernaut".  Now that's funny.

 

 

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 19:26 | 6669131 spyware-free
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yes...so hilarious /sarc

You're such a tool.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 20:19 | 6669281 Baby Bladeface
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I would think you were from NATO cyberarmies, but the level of intelligence you clearly stunted.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 19:28 | 6669136 bid the soldier...
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The best way to handle an out-of-business hegemon is to treat it like a Marlin hooked on your line and let it exhaust itself until you reel it in without any difficulty.

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 19:35 | 6669158 ali-ali-al-qomfri
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girls from Fiery Cross, I think I just Spratleyed my underwear

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 20:37 | 6669318 o r c k
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That don't bother me atoll

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 19:48 | 6669190 bid the soldier...
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Why should China send its men and its aircraft carrier to the eastern Mediterrean when they'd make such a nice welcome wagon for the Obama Armada which is presently steaming West, polishing up their missiles and singing:

Come you back, you 'Murican soldier; come you back to Mandalay! "
Come you back to Mandalay,
Where the old Flotilla lay:

 On the road to Mandalay,
Where the flyin'-fishes play,
An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!

God, how proud would Jones, Farragut and Dewey be of our Negro!

 

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 20:28 | 6669296 Teh Finn
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Wasn't much more than a week ago that the Imperial Rus Warmongers(paid shill propagandists) were hyperventilating about the immediate deployment of chinamen to Syria.  Tick tock...

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 21:00 | 6669400 alphahammer
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The Chinese just showed Puitn who the boss is eh... 

The moment I saw this photo of Xi Jinpings visit to Moscow and you just KNEW he had Putin right-where-he-wanted-him.

Don't believe that? Look at the mockery hes making of the Russians in the media,  but better yet, look at this photo and tell me I'm wrong...

https://www.irishtimes.com/polopoly_fs/1.2205428.1431102541!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_620_330/image.jpg

Wed, 10/14/2015 - 20:32 | 6669303 Salsa Verde
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These days I'll believe Chinese propaganda before I believe US propaganda.

Thu, 10/15/2015 - 00:23 | 6669853 onmail1
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Chinese fear Sanctions

But it is inevitable (becuz cabalA$$LickerDemonicHomObama is insane)

 

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