Syria: What China Has Learned From its Libya Experience

Yun Sun, former Visiting Fellow with the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at The Brookings Institution, argues that “The bitter lesson from its belated and ongoing unstable relationship with the Libyan National Transitional Council has prompted Beijing to adopt a more sophisticated hedging strategy on Syria.”

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