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China may deploy special forces to Syria to counter Turkistan Islamic Party 

… from Southfront

This is what China fears, jihadi mushrooms returning from Syria

[ Editor’s Note: It looks like China might be making an exception for avoiding foreign involvement in military disputes by borrowing a page from Putin’s book.

Putin had stated on the front end of Russia going into Syria that it was better to kill the thousands of Russian and former Soviet Union jihadis in Iraq, as opposed to waiting for them to return home with their combat experience to begin training cadres.



China can’t be blind to the huge increase in combat readiness that all Russian forces have undergone, from rotating all pilots through the conflict so they are combat veterans now, and the testing of its new equipment under real conditions.

The history of warfare and green troops is carved in stone, in terms of the disaster they can create when fighting against veterans. The same can be said for new equipment that has been hyped and only tested under “impossible to fail” conditions.

Uncovering defects, like the Russian did with there helicopters, allowed for fixes to be found and already implemented.

Putin’s military family does not include his grandkids being trained to fight

I remember clearly once when Putin was asked how much the Syrian War was costing the Russian defense budget, he answered dismissively, stating that it was not a big deal, as a lot of it was coming from the training budget. That was his silver bullet.

Having China join the Syrian anti-terrorism coalition to fight the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP), I have to ask the age old question of “Why now?” And the first option that pops up in my head is the US’ now stated position of staying in Syria until it sees what the result of the political talks are, where it might find another reason for staying.

So the Chinese might be sending a message to Trump, “See you there”. China has already confirmed that it will help Syria rebuild. That would make its projects into targets for car and suicide bombings, which would be all that was needed to give cause for Chinese military to be deployed to “protect their interests”, the term that the US loves to use …Jim W. Dean ]

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Turkistan Islamic Party kids in Syria – Looks like they are planning to stay

– First published … November 29, 2017

Bouthaina Shaaban, the political and media adviser to Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad, discussed  the possibility of deploying Chinese Special Forces to Syria with Chinese Army officials during her latest visit to China, the Russian news agency Sputnik reported on November 28.

According to Sputnik’s report, the Chinese Army is planning to deploy the Shenyang Military Region Special Forces Unit “Siberian Tiger”, and the Lanzhou Military Region Special Forces Unit “Night Tiger” to Syria in order to counter the threat of the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), which had recruited thousands of Chinese Uyghurs and sent them to Syria during the last few years.

On November 23, Reuters reported that Shaaban only met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during her visit to China. The two sides discussed the political process in Syria and the reconstruction of the country, according to Reuters.

“China hopes the Syrian side can seize the opportunity, display flexibility, and promote dialogue and negotiation to achieve substantive results …The international community should emphasize and actively support Syria’s reconstruction. China will put forth its own effort for this,” Wang said after meeting with Shaaban, according to Reuters.

Lately, the TIP became one of the strongest forces in the Syrian governorate of Idlib. The Asian radical Islamist groups are now supporting a military operation of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda) in the northern Hama countryside, according to Syrian opposition sources.

This might have encouraged China to consider a military action against the TIP in Syria before its fighters gain an opportunity to return to eastern Asia.

Some sources speculate that a mysterious Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) strike, which targeted fighters of the TIP in Idlib city on November 17, could be linked to Chinese military activities in Syria, as Turkey and the US didn’t announce their responsibility for the airstrike.

The Chinese Air Force is known to be one of the biggest operators of UCAVs in the world. Moreover, the Russian Special Force had conducted similar limited military operations against radical Chechen fighters in northern Lattakia months before an official start of the Russian military operation in Syria.

The military operation in Syria will not only allow China to counter the TIP threat far away from its territory, but it will also allow the economical giant to secure a place in the Syrian reconstruction process.

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