‘Strategic partnership’ agreement on Assad’s invasion of China

Syrian leader Bashar Assad met with President Xi Jinping in China today, where he visited for the first time in 20 years.

At the meeting of the two leaders, who met in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzu, it was decided to establish a strategic partnership between China and Syria. Chinese leader Xi said taking relations with Syria to the next level would be a very important turning point in the history of the two countries.

Assad had already visited China in 2004. The Syrian leader, accompanied by his wife Esma Assad and a high-level delegation, is expected to hold a series of meetings with Chinese officials.

The Assad administration, which regained most of the territory with the support of Russia and Iran after the war that broke out in Syria in 2011, has recently normalized relations with Arab countries.