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China Media: Xi In Central Asia
BBC NEWS, CHINA
September 4, 2013: State media say the Syria crisis is on President Xi Jinping's agenda as he visits Central Asia and Russia. Mr Xi has upgraded relations with Turkmenistan to a strategic partnership and secured more natural gas shipments to China during a stopover in the country before leaving for the G20 summit in Russia.
The Chinese leader will then visit neighboring Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and also attend a summit of the Shanghai Co-operation Organization (SCO) in Kyrgyzstan. Even though it is seen as a regional body focused on security co-operation and trade, some state media are calling on the SCO to take a stand on Syria.
"Iran is an SCO observer state, and Iran and Russia are Syria's main allies, so the SCO summit should take a stance on the current chaos in Syria," says a commentary by the website of the People's Daily Overseas Edition.
State media issue further calls to the US not to launch a military strike on Syrian government forces without UN authorization, as well as questioning the validity of US evidence that Syrian government forces used chemical weapons in a deadly attack last month.
"We do not know who used chemical weapons in Syria in the end, but we have to say that the evidence presented by the US and France is indeed ambiguous," comments the Global Times.
