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China-Syria relations

Syrian President Bashar Assad, center, waves to his supporters at a polling station during the Presidential elections in the town of Douma, in the eastern Ghouta region, near the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria, May 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
September 21, 2023, 11:00 am
Assad seeks funds in China on first visit since war started in Syria
China one of only a handful of countries Syrian leader has visited since 2011; Beijing has pledged $2 billion in investments in Syria, but funds ‘yet to materialize’
By AFP
Syrian President Bashar Assad, center, waves to his supporters at a polling station during the Presidential elections in the town of Douma, in the eastern Ghouta region, near the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria, May 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
September 20, 2023, 6:56 am
Syria’s Assad to visit China as Beijing boosts reach in Mideast
Trip will be Syrian leader’s first to Beijing since outbreak of his country’s civil war 12 years ago; China could play major role in future reconstruction
By Albert Aji and BASSEM MROUE
Actors are pictured in the Hajar al-Aswad neighborhood of Damascus during the filming of "Home Operation," produced by actor Jackie Chan and inspired by real events of the emergency evacuation of Chinese and foreign nationals and diplomats during the early days of a civil war in Yemen, July 14, 2022. (Louai Beshara/AFP)
July 17, 2022, 11:41 am
Former Islamic State stronghold in Syria hosts Jackie Chan film set
‘Home Operation’ was inspired by China’s 2015 operation to evacuate its citizens and other foreigners from Yemen amid civil war, but film only mentions fictional country ‘Poman’
By Maher Al-Mounes
This undated photo released by the Turkistan Islamic Party, a militant website, shows fighters from the group at an unknown location in Syria. (Turkistan Islamic Party website via AP)
April 23, 2017, 1:49 am
Chinese jihadis’ rise in Syria raise concerns at home
Organized, battle-hardened and numbering in the thousands, members of the Turkistan Islamic Party have fought in the ranks of al-Qaeda, Islamic State and other extremist groups
By Gerry Shih and Bassam Mroue
A rebel fighter fires a gun at an army jet flying a bombing run on nearby rebel positions in the district of Aleppo Jedida, Syria, on Monday, October 29, 2012 (photo credit: AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)
November 12, 2012, 12:01 pm
Syrian jet bombs area near Turkish border
China repeats call for conflicting parties to negotiate
Flag of the First East Turkestan Republic, one of two short-lived independent Uighur republics in Xinjiang, now part of China. (photo credit: CC BY Wikipedia)
October 29, 2012, 1:55 pm
Beijing report says Chinese Muslim separatists have joined Syria rebels
Al-Qaeda-linked radicals among China’s ethnic Turkic Uighur minority said traveling to Syria since May
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