Syrian Rebels Now Picking a Fight with China

FrontpageNews ^ | 09/14/2013 | Daniel Greenfield

[TexGrill]

China doesn’t have the same record of killing foreign enemies overseas that Russia does. But it has a large enough overseas network and piles of cash that it could get the job done if it needed to.

Just ask Naw Kham what happened after the Mekong River Massacre.

The bodies of the Chinese, the crew of two cargo boats, were found badly mutilated on the Thai side of the river in early October 2011. The killings, the worst slaughter of Chinese citizens abroad in recent memory, angered the Chinese public. Chinese investigators insist that Mr. Naw Kham was the mastermind of the murders.

It took six months for China to catch Mr. Naw Kham, a citizen of Myanmar in his 40s, a man of many aliases who was at the center of the booming synthetic drug business in the Golden Triangle, once known for its opium.

What came next was quick: the authorities flew the drug lord from Laos to China, tried him in a provincial court and executed him last month in a highly publicized live television broadcast that captured the proceedings until just moments before he received a lethal injection

[TexGrill]

"Stupid is as stupid does."

[DIRTYSECRET]

In the immortal words of John Kerry(who served in Viet Nam) I say ‘BRING IT ON!”

[Zhang Fei]

In Laos, which borders China, Chinese agents can hide in plain sight, given that they share similar physiques and facial features with the natives. Not so in Syria. I’m skeptical China can do anything to the rebels in Syria using Chinese agents. Of course, with the right amount of money, anyone can be taken - they could outsource the snatch operation to the locals.

[setha]

Can both of them (China and the rebels) both lose at the same time?

This sounds more like an attestation to Chinese corruption than their willingness to get someone.

[jespasinthru]

In China, you need a passport just to leave your village. They’ve got their Muslim population tightly corralled. If they start some $#!+, the Chinese government will just send some troops into their villages and wipe out a bunch of them. And the outside world would never know it happened.

[elhombrelibre]

I agree with you. The ChiComs would have to pay someone else to do it. It’s not like they could send their own agents who might pass for Syrian. I’m surprised there has not been a bigger backlash against China and Russia for their continued support for dictators. The movement in the field now is the result of an evolution from peaceful Syrians wanting Assad to step down. The dichotomy of it today, which many believe is Assad or al Qaeda didn’t exist for the first year and a half of the Syrian conflict. China and Russia supported Assad long before al Qaeda got into it. It’s not surprising that many in Syria who don’t want the Assad crime family to continue to rule them would be angry at the outsiders who make that rule possible. It’s also not surprising that al Qaeda showed up to take advantage of the vacuum.

[TexGrill]

You don’t need a passport to leave your village, but you do have to show id when buying a long distance bus or train ticket in the country. Yet many can still get around this law by hitchhiking or buying scalped bus tickets. This is how bus drivers earn extra money. Most poor people can’t afford cars so that’s why they need some form of id, but in the US we must carry a driver’s license if we drive a car. It’s my understanding that we Americans must also show id when getting on the plane, but I’m not certain what are the rules for a long distance bus ticket.

[SunkenCiv]

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