Both Russia and China have stepped up their warnings to the US about possible military action, Russian foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said "Attempts to bypass the Security Council, once again to create artificial groundless excuses for a military intervention in the region are fraught with new suffering in Syria and catastrophic consequences for other countries of the Middle East and North Africa," he said in a statement.
In an editorial written by "Zheng Song", or The Voice of China, said that the US only want to become involved in the conflict because they want regime change, saying nothing of China's hopes to secure access to oil in the region by providing financial and military support to President Assad. China's dependency on fossil fuels has led it into something of a power struggle in the region, and they are desperate that the US doesn't get it's hands on Syria's oil like they did after the removal of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
Neatly dismissing any talk of human rights abuses, and saying little of the alledged gas attack by pro-Assad forces on Syrian people, China has managed to keep it's involvement apparently limited to calls for more patience regarding the United Nations inspections. According to reports, China has provided the Syrian army with $300 million worth of arms from 2007-2010, and provided intelligence that helped Syrian forces bomb a western arms convoy earlier this year.
Of the three countries providing support to Assad's regime, China has been the quietest, preferring to take the "non-interference" line when it comes to publicly discussing the civil conflict.
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