Tuesday, October 27, 2015

China Looks at Syria, Sees $$

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China Looks at Syria, Sees $$

Russia is betting its geopolitical future in the Middle East on a military intervention to prop up the regime of Bashar al-Assad. But one of the biggest companies from another rising power, China, is betting that when the long civil war in Syria is over, the country will be a good place to do business. Huawei, one of China’s richest companies and the largest telecommunications equipment maker in the world, has signed an agreement with Syria to design a “national strategy for information and communication technology,” including the construction of a broadband network for Internet service, the company announced earlier this month. This isn’t the first time Huawei has gone to work for an authoritarian

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