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China Aiding Syrian Missile Program

May 13, 2004 :: Middle East Newsline :: News

Rogue states are not the only, or even the chief sources of proliferation. In one way or another, much can be traced back to Russia and China. The Middle East Newsline today reports that, despite Bashar Assad’s disavowals of any pursuit of WMDs, Syria is in fact working ever more closely with China, receiving from the latter technological and diplomatic delegations to discuss how to boost Syria’s missile capabilities. Middle East Newsline cites one diplomatic source saying that “The Chinese effort is meant to provide Syria with technical assistance that it has not been able to receive from other countries…The focus is to extend the Scud from short-range to medium- and even intermediate-range.”

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