SYRIA UPDATE: The overthrow of Syria’s Assad government has changed the entire world order. In one stroke, the dominance of Russia and Iran ended and the money invested by China in Syria under the BRI project also seems to be wasted.
China will also be most troubled by this development. Which has been a close ally of the Assad government for a long time. Assad helped China establish its foothold in Syria. Defense expert Brigadier Shardendu (retired) says that China is building a corridor between Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Russia. But as soon as Syria lost control, this link was completely broken. Although there was no direct intervention of the Chinese military in Syria, the US was already not giving China a chance to gain a foothold in the name of sanctions of various kinds and will not give it any more now. At present, the Eastern Bloc of Russia-China and the Western Bloc of America-Europe are seen clashing in the Middle East. Threat to billions of dollars of Chinese investment: In 2009, trade between China and Syria was $2.2 billion. Trade declined due to the civil war, but China planned to invest billions of dollars in reconstruction after the war. Even during the civil war that started in 2011, China, along with Russia and Iran, continued to support Assad’s government. As soon as Assad’s government came to power in Syria in 2016, China’s investment increased 100 times. The investment which was 5 lakh dollars in 2016 increased to 5 crore dollars in 2017. China has made a long investment in Syria and that too has invested 300 crore dollars in the oil and gas sector. In the year 2022, Syria became a part of China’s Belt Road Initiative and took part in the construction of roads, rail and ports. Now that Assad is no more, China is beginning to fear about its investments. How will American influence make China ineffective in Syria? America and China, which transformed the world from multi-polar to bi-polar, do not want anyone to become bigger than the other. Big countries like Russia, Iran and China have been supporting the Assad government of Syria, whereas America, on the contrary, has tried several times to remove Assad’s government but could not succeed. Now when Golani opened the front, along with America, Israel was also seen with him. Now America definitely got the opportunity to put brakes on China’s growing BRI. However, China is also watching this entire development very closely. Xi Jinping launched BRI i.e. Belt Road Initiative in 2013 with the aim of increasing China’s dominance and trade. Till now, BRI has signed more than 200 cooperation agreements with 150 countries and 30 international organizations in Asia, Africa, Europe and South America. Under the same, this agreement was made with the Assad government of Syria in the year 2022. Because China knows that Syria is an important link to connect Africa, Asia and Europe. But now he will definitely be worried because the future of the BRI project is now in the hands of the terrorist government Tags: America News, China, China news, Middle east, RussiaFIRST PUBLISHED : December 11, 2024, 19:49 IST