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Saddoun N. Al-Majali, Raafat Abdel salam Tarawneh: The Chinese Position on the Syrian Crisis 2011-2018

and the collapse of the Syrian regime. In the same vein, Syria gained Russian support,
and the Russian-Iranian interests of Iran supported the Syrian regime.

China has become one of the world's leading poles. The United States has openly
sought to counter its influence as a major competitor to the United States. International
developments, especially those in the Middle East, after the events of September 11,
2001, and the aftermath of the Arab Revolt, China is in the equation of conflict in that
region, and although the recent escalation of tensions between the US and China in
China's region of influence in Asia is not new, China cannot separate that tension from
the US announcement of shifting its areas of interest to the axis of influence In Asia
and the Pacific in recent years [Khatib, Dania (2014)].

These dangerous security changes in the Middle East do not come out of the American
interventions and arrangements that have been an area of influence for nearly a
century, especially since the collapse of this region poses a potential threat to China's
national security directly, not only to its economic interests, Is openly concerned about
attempts by the United States to intervene in Chinese affairs and its attempt to recruit
the presence of many Chinese armed minorities in China, some of whose members
are fighting alongside the opposition in Syria to carry out terrorist acts within China.
The United Arab Emirates is a significant point of balance for the Middle East,
especially in the Middle East, China cannot easily abandon it and reflect the overall
conflict between the United States and China, but it is unlikely that China will
intervene militarily in the Syrian crisis, given the soft power of its foreign policy
[Derby, Abdel-Al (2014), Al-Bayan Newspaper (2015)].

The second requirement: China's economic interests in Syria.

China and Iran have economic interests in the oil-rich Middle East, and change the
equation of power in the region in favor of Western influence that will affect those
interests, The economic partnership between China and Syria also has the potential to
develop, especially through the economic theory put forward by Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad in 2002, on the basis that Syria becomes the main link for five
seafarers, which is compatible with China's ambitions to build an economic belt based
on the concept of A new way of life, The historical route of the road linking China to
the Arab countries via Syria, and the more China's international standing, the greater
the interest of China in Syria as a strategic focal point in the region [Abdelkader,
Moataz (2014)].

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