{"id":3975,"date":"2018-08-06T08:21:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T08:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3975"},"modified":"2018-08-06T08:21:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T08:21:25","slug":"china-says-willing-to-team-with-assad-in-push-to-retake-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/08\/06\/china-says-willing-to-team-with-assad-in-push-to-retake-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"CHINA SAYS WILLING TO TEAM WITH ASSAD IN PUSH TO RETAKE TERRITORY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/01\/CHINA-AFGHANISTAN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2956\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/01\/CHINA-AFGHANISTAN-1024x687.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/01\/CHINA-AFGHANISTAN-1024x687.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/01\/CHINA-AFGHANISTAN-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/01\/CHINA-AFGHANISTAN-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/01\/CHINA-AFGHANISTAN-560x376.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/01\/CHINA-AFGHANISTAN-260x174.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/01\/CHINA-AFGHANISTAN-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/01\/CHINA-AFGHANISTAN.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Asia Times<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s ambassador to Damascus has reportedly told Syrian media that Beijing is prepared to aid the government\u2019s push to retake territory throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Syrian pro-government daily Al-Watan, the envoy, Qi Qianjin, expressed China\u2019s support for what he referred to as Syria\u2019s war against terrorists, according to a dispatch from the Middle East Media Research Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Qi said he regretted that Chinese Uyghurs had participated in fighting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad, adding that the Chinese military was hoping to enhance relations with the Syrian military.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAsked about the possibility that his country would take part in the Syrian Arab Army\u2019s upcoming campaign against the terrorists in Idlib, especially in light of the presence of Uyghur fighters [there], [Qi] replied that China \u2018is following the situation in Syria, in particular after the victory in southern [Syria], and its military is willing to participate in some way alongside the Syrian army that is fighting the terrorists in Idlib and in any other part of Syria,\u201d the article from Al-Watan was translated as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/article\/china-says-willing-to-team-with-syrias-assad-in-push-to-retake-territory\/\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Asia Times China\u2019s ambassador to Damascus has reportedly told Syrian media that Beijing is prepared to aid the government\u2019s push to retake territory throughout the country. Speaking to Syrian pro-government daily Al-Watan, the envoy, Qi Qianjin, expressed China\u2019s support for what he referred to as Syria\u2019s war against terrorists, according to a dispatch from&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/08\/06\/china-says-willing-to-team-with-assad-in-push-to-retake-territory\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CHINA SAYS WILLING TO TEAM WITH ASSAD IN PUSH TO RETAKE TERRITORY<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3976,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions\/3976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}