Chinese 'flying sharks' could reach Syria in just a few days and not weeks, as previously planned. The Israeli intelligence site DEBKA is relaunching the news, citing a private conversation that took place a few hours ago between Russians and Chinese.
The fourth-generation J-15 bombers, according to DEBKA, will soon reach Syria to join the Russian air campaign. Despite the initial skepticism (in reality the information of the Israelis have been underestimated) on the presence of the Chinese aircraft carrier anchored at the port of Tartus, the confirmation has then arrived directly from the Russians. We also have a Chinese aircraft carrier, Duma State Defense Chairman Vladimir Komoyedov said, dispelling any doubts about it.
We know that the Chinese carrier arrived in Syria without its attack group and escorted by a missile cruiser. Today his role is purely logistic. According to the first rumors, the Chinese bombers would have been deployed on board the Liaoning by November.
Much earlier - say the Israelis - those fighters will be in Syria in days and not in weeks and will immediately go into battle.
If the Chinese really had to take action, it would be a historic event for the first military operation in the Middle East and the baptism of fire, in conditions of real combat, of the aircraft carrier Liaoning.
Moscow, meanwhile, would ask Baghdad for permission to use an air base to hit all enemy positions in northern Iraq. Finally, it would be appropriate to emphasize two distinct declarations made in the past few hours. Yesterday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, on the sidelines of a UN Security Council meeting in New York, commented on the crisis in Syria with these words: "The world cannot afford to stand and watch and watch with the arms folded, but it must not even interfere ". Words that echo the statement made by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi: "We are in favor of deploying Russian troops in Iraq to fight ISIS forces. Moscow could also deal with the 2500 Muslim Chechens who struggle with the Islamic State in Iraq ".
