http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/20220117/f54494ab46ec41e9bf058e2d0099625e/c.html
This article outlines that Syria received more than 4,000 tons of rice from China this Sunday. This is the latest in a long line of humanitarian supplies China has provided to Syria to help ease the civilian suffering in Iraq. A Syrian ambassador Hboubati thanked China for its assistance to the Syrian people, as he signed the receipt document for the food supply in a image that the article shows. Hboubati released a thankful gratitude statement saying “We hope that the aid will help to alleviate the suffering of Syrians, and on this occasion, I would like to express my gratitude to the SARC for their collaboration,” the ambassador said.
This is important because it helps that China is giving back to other countries mainly because of China is increasingly seeming like a more prominent patron to the Syrian government. This increasing help and cooperation from the chinese government comes amid Syria’s joining China’s ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ last week, allowing the Syrian government to have greater access to Chinese assistance and support. Devastating impact of economic crisis have left syrian families struggling to stay warm and stave off hunger as cold weather continues. China and Syria are big time allies and it is good to see that China giving to those suffering in others countries.
This relates to what we have been talking about in class that China the last decade or so has not been afraid to help out lots of countries that are in need. However, they main reason for them to seem so kind is that so that other countries feel obligated to help China if something bad was to happen. China is trying to assert themselves the world’s superpower by infrastructure projects, and ample foreign currency, to build new global trading routes. Even the small things like giving food to country in need is helping China make more alliances to help improve their global trade and influence on the world.