
© Xinhua Photo - Liang ShunGULF OF ADEN -- A marine observes the situation on the sea at the dock landing ship “Jing Gangshan” of the 15th Escort Taskforce of the Chinese Navy in the Gulf of Aden. This is the first implementation of the joint convoy mission of the 14th and the 15th Escort Taskforce of the Chinese Navy, Sept. 2013; the first ever buildup of the Chinese Navy in the middle east.
CNN on 12 November reported Obama administration is suddenly focused on removing Assad as the core of its anti-ISIS strategy, once again submitting to Turkey and Arab Gulf states that enabled ISIS to begin with, and are actually contributing very little to the anti-ISIS efforts to be dictating such orders to Washington.
Moreover, these demands are harmful to US security interests - redefining US anti-ISIS mission to one of anti-Assad mission - and thereby potentially drawing in Eurasian powers of China, Russia and Iran into open military conflict against the US.
Presently the Beijing-Moscow-Tehran axis is actually tacitly supporting the US-led coalition, and Assad is allowing US use of its airspace to strike ISIS and other Islamic extremist groups.
Now, Ankara, Riyadh and Doha's obsession on removing Assad and hoping to replace him with a proxy Islamist regime is throwing a monkey wrench into coalition efforts. With Islamist strongholds spanning from Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and Egypt, this risks turning the Eastern Mediterranean into an Islamic Lake, a threat shared by Israel as well as EU members Cyprus and Greece.
This is also a threat to US' Noble Energy, Italy's ENI, Korea's KOGAS, Russia's Gazprom, and other stakeholders such as Jordan, Egypt, and Asian consumers interested in the newly discovered natural gas resources in the Eastern Mediterranean.
As such, removing Assad for a probable Islamist replacement that will also persecute the Christian, Kurdish, Druze and Alawite communities in Syria; escalate the conflict by drawing in two nuclear powers of China and Russia; harm development of hydrocarbons in the Levantine Basin and further regional instability, is not in US or EU's security interest.
And it is definitely not in China's interest.
Comment: The extent of British 'elite' child sexual abuse is staggering, yet the true extent of the abuse is still unknown, and likely massively underestimated. Even today coverups continue into cases from the 1980s and 90s, files have been destroyed, and the evidence that they have been destroyed is itself being covered up. The only lesson that the British elite have learned from recent exposure of their brutality towards children is that they should engage in such inhuman acts with even more secrecy than before.
Lord (Norman) Tebbit, a close ally of former prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, publicly explained earlier this year how "different things looked" in the 1980s: Indeed, and Tebbit was one of those people who "thought it was more important to protect the system" than to protect innocent and vulnerable children. Tebbit, along with Margaret Thatcher and other Tory party elite, narrowly escaped justice when they were targeted by an IRA bomb at the 1984 Conservative party conference at the Grand Hotel in Brighton.
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