By Pepe Escobar
July 14, 2017
July 14, 2017
Amid
the proverbial doom and gloom pervading all things Syria, the slings and arrows
of outrageous fortune sometimes yield, well, good fortune.
Take
what happened this past Sunday in Beijing. The China-Arab Exchange Association
and the Syrian Embassy organized a Syria Day Expo crammed with hundreds of
Chinese specialists in infrastructure investment. It was a sort of
mini-gathering of the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), billed as
“The First Project Matchmaking Fair for Syria Reconstruction”.