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Syrian Leader Survives on Unrelenting Russian-Chinese Support By Thalif Deen

Bashar al-Assad, Syria's beleaguered president, has openly defied the Western world, succeeded in splitting the United Nations Security Council and fractured the League of Arab States – even as it imposed unprecedented economic sanctions against his embattled country. With Russia and China, two permanent members of the Security Council, exercising their vetoes to protect him against U.N. intervention, and Lebanon …

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