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China: We Might Help Assad with the War in Syria
The Daily Beast ^ | August 11, 2018 | Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian

Posted on 08/11/2018 11:39:22 AM PDT by Navy Patriot

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To: Navy Patriot

Fine, then they can sell their crap to Venezuela.


21 posted on 08/11/2018 2:14:54 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: Navy Patriot

how do we take
advantage of this situation?

Rocky


22 posted on 08/11/2018 2:28:59 PM PDT by RockyTx
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To: Navy Patriot

“China responding to opportunity.”

To scoop up assets at fire sale prices, and horn in on all the reconstruction contracts.

Assad almost has the war won, and suddenly Iran (who runs the ground war) is in danger of bankruptcy or regime change. He needs a bunch of guys to replace Iran and its surrogates if they fall, and to bankroll the surrogate militias for a while. The Syrian Arab Army is a mere shell of its former self, after years of casualties and desertions.

China would probably like just a couple of showpiece special forces assaults, and then a long period of major construction projects, which China ends up owning through one of their debt traps.

Syria would probably want tens of thousands of occupation forces/police, who would likely start getting picked off one at a time.


23 posted on 08/11/2018 2:32:53 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: Navy Patriot

China, China, China. We gonna need to blow your shit up too?

Quit trying to look for ways to annoy us, please, it will only end badly for you.


24 posted on 08/11/2018 2:55:00 PM PDT by Defiant (I may be deplorable, but I'm not getting in that basket.)
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To: frank ballenger

[So many bad things happened in my life to me and to my wife that I have a lot of anger.]


Sorry to hear about your tribulations. God willing, things will take a turn for the better.


25 posted on 08/11/2018 3:56:59 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (They can have my pitbull when they pry his cold dead jaws off my ass.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Wait until the first beheadings or accidental friendly fire incident


26 posted on 08/11/2018 4:05:00 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: Navy Patriot
China responding to opportunity.

Yeah. May they live in interesting times.

27 posted on 08/11/2018 4:45:13 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: RockyTx
how do we take advantage of this situation?

Expand the Capitalist American economy, and use it to supply all the needs and wants of Americans as Ronald Reagan recommended. Win the Trade War that China started 30 years ago with tariffs on US exports, as President Trump id doing by fighting back. Let China overextend themselves and move in on their markets.

28 posted on 08/11/2018 4:53:58 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America NEEDS Mob Rule, another European and Mid East World War and a universal Draft)
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To: Mariner
"We – China and its military – wish to develop our relations with the Syrian army.

This outa be good! Watching China trying to project military power thousands of miles away when they can't even cross the Taiwan Strait. Yeah, I said 'Taiwan'.

29 posted on 08/11/2018 5:26:57 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: frank ballenger
Hope the Chicoms fall for the Viet effect.

Or the Afghanistan effect.

30 posted on 08/12/2018 9:42:07 AM PDT by Sawdring
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Beijing struggles to defuse anger over China’s P2P lending crisis
Reuters | August 12, 2018 / 2:02 AM / Updated 4 hours ago | Shu Zhang, Elias Glenn
Posted on 08/12/2018 10:15:23 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
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31 posted on 08/12/2018 1:40:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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