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| Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
| Bad week for Assad |
| 2004-06-26 |
| Debka, so salt to taste. Assad cut short Beijing trip Thursday when Chinese officials refused his demand to put up massive funding for his projected economic cooperation treaty and free trade port at Latakiya for marketing Chinese merchandize in Middle East. Assad doesn’t understand that China wants him to invest in them, not the other way round. On the other hand, there was an Israeli trade delegation in China that week that was well received. Besides the Chinese are too smart to invest in a loser like Syria Before his trip, European Union issued flat refusal of trade accord as long as Syria joins Iran on medium-range surface missile, chemical and weapons production and centrifuge parts acquisition.It can be painful when effect meets cause. |
| Posted by:RWV |
| #2 150,000 weapons inspectors are still on the job in neighboring Iraq... |
| Posted by: Anonymous5405 2004-06-26 5:35:28 PM |
| #1 I predict he'll have more bad weeks before '04 is over |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-06-26 1:37:00 PM |