What a post-Assad Syria means for China (Kabir Taneja, Observer Research Foundation)

Over the past two years, China’s foreign policy has been consistent in the manner of largely supporting the Arab positions over Gaza, which included hosting Hamas in Beijing, amongst other Palestinian entities, to try and mediate. Its position in Arab hearts and minds has grown and recent surveys have put the United States below its eastern competition in popularity. However, the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria has opened a core security crisis for the Chinese by way of a stronger political position for Uyghur militants in the ‘new’ Damascus under President Ahmed al-Sharaa.

What a post-Assad Syria means for China