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Syrian Rebels Attack Chinese Diplomats, Embassy
The Diplomat ^ | 9/13/13 | Staff

Posted on 09/12/2013 8:33:15 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist

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This ambassador seems to really be taking a major chance by coming out with this publicly.
1 posted on 09/12/2013 8:33:15 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

The Chinese are just trying to tlick us into herping the lebers.


2 posted on 09/12/2013 8:35:38 PM PDT by FredZarguna (The only good public school administrator ...)
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Keyword trolls, McCainiacs, an uber-interventionists in 3...2...1...


3 posted on 09/12/2013 8:36:24 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Because of the abdication of a whoring US Congress,
busy fleecing the American public through their
“Laws” made for OTHERS,
WW3 is developing as the Free World + Russia and China
vs the USA and al Qaeda.


4 posted on 09/12/2013 8:36:36 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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Syrian Rebels Attack Chinese Diplomats, Embassy,

Will they blame it on "old maps".

5 posted on 09/12/2013 8:37:59 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: FredZarguna

English please


6 posted on 09/12/2013 8:38:44 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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No, like I said, this ambassador - given there are only 20 Chinese nationals left there, according to the article, when there were 1,200 at one time, is taking a big chance by saying all of this publicly.


7 posted on 09/12/2013 8:41:47 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Nice and our government is arming the rebels.


8 posted on 09/12/2013 8:43:09 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: Diogenesis

We are on the wrong side of this war. We are being lied to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBwFQXKObQY


9 posted on 09/12/2013 8:43:18 PM PDT by LowTaxesEqualsProsperity
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

Sorry. I was putting a small cabinet from Walmart together a few hours ago and slipped into dialect.


10 posted on 09/12/2013 8:52:53 PM PDT by FredZarguna (The only good public school administrator ...)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

How is this so? Isn’t the official Chinese position to support the Syrian government? How does his trashing the rebels put him in any bad position?


11 posted on 09/12/2013 8:54:00 PM PDT by FredZarguna (The only good public school administrator ...)
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The rebels are already having a hard time, do they really want to bring the Chinese into this?


12 posted on 09/12/2013 8:57:46 PM PDT by GeronL
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20 Chinese nationals left at the embassy, 8 are reporters.

He saod in the article that he is not without fear, has a bullet-proof vest, and probably- given how few nationals are left - doesn’t have much protection.

Given that the article says that a brigade commander has vowed to wage a full-scale attack on the embassy, he will only make them angrier by talking about all of this publicly.


13 posted on 09/12/2013 9:03:26 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: GeronL

Who knows what either side of this conflict is thinking. IMHO, it is best to stay out of this.


14 posted on 09/12/2013 9:06:07 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

I don’t think the rebels really want to bring the Chinese into this conflict. Mao subsidized Communist insurgencies around the world to the tune of tens of billions (back when a Mickey D’s burger was 20 cents) at a time when Chinese were dying of starvation in the tens of millions, and Chinese GDP per capita was as low as or lower than the least developed African countries. With its present GDP per capita in the upper half of the table, and a total GDP greater than all of the Muslim countries put together, China could keep Assad afloat and in guns and ammo for as long as he needs to push all the Sunni Arabs out of Syria.


15 posted on 09/12/2013 9:08:40 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: LowTaxesEqualsProsperity

Towards the end I believe there’s a MLRS, a BM21 grad. Where the the rebels get this?


16 posted on 09/12/2013 9:13:46 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

I have had some discussions with PRC nationals about this kind of stuff.

They are as naive as most US liberals and don’t think that any of these nations would ever hurt them, especially after all they’ve done for them.

Hong Kongers are the worst about this. They will glibly take a tour into a really dangerous area because, and they’ve told me this, “We’re not Americans, nobody hates us”

China is about to find out in the next few years that part of the job description of a Super Power is being hated


17 posted on 09/12/2013 9:14:31 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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18 posted on 09/12/2013 9:16:41 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: Irenic

Libya? Iraq? Afghanistan?

The US abandons a lot of stuff when they pull out.

who knows.

Fast and Furious?


19 posted on 09/12/2013 9:20:40 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans; FredZarguna

The Chinese are just trying to tlick us into herping the lebers.

******

Just trying to help but I think FredZ is saying: The Chinese are just trying to trick us into helping the rebels.


20 posted on 09/12/2013 9:27:21 PM PDT by JouleZ (You are the company you keep.)
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