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China and Syria find kinship in genocide

By Tom Rogan
Published July 19, 2021 7:52pm ET
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China and Syria find kinship in genocide
In this photo released on Wednesday, June 13, 2018 by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks during an interview with Iran's Al Alam TV, in Damascus, Syria. Assad says Iran's presence in Syria and its relations with Damascus are not negotiable and repeated the assertion that Iran has no fixed bases in Syria. | (SANA via AP)

Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi was in Damascus this weekend, celebrating his nation’s brotherhood with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. While the two regimes are bonded by economic cooperation, their kinship today flows from a less auspicious predilection.

Namely, genocide against innocent Muslims.

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