On Syria, the U.S. should take cues from Beijing, not Moscow

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-china-model-for-syria/2015/10/29/af7b4892-79c1-11e5-b9c1-f03c48c96ac2_story.html

Matthew Spence, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Middle East policy from 2012 to this year, is a senior fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.

Russia is dominating the debate over Syria. President Vladi­mir Putin’s supposed masterstroke was to use tactical bombing to regain the strategic initiative in the Middle East and throw the United States back on its heels. But Russia is hardly the right model for U.S. action in Syria. Instead, another U.S. rival offers a more valuable strategic perspective: China. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-china-model-for-syria/2015/10/29/af7b4892-79c1-11e5-b9c1-f03c48c96ac2_story.html