Wednesday   25 November     2015  / Hour 1, Block A: Harry Kazianis, executive editor of The National Interest and a senior Fellow for defense policy at the Center for the National Interest, in re: Russia has put its S400 air defense system in Latakia, Syria.  There's no way to take that out but the US fleet.  SO far, no Chinese soldiers yet deployed to do war-fighting, However, in Bamako, Mali, three Chinese nationals were murdered in their hotel by al Qaeda . China does not yet have a policy in such matters. It'll take over a lot of real estate in its nearby neighborhood, but hasn't yet designed a global" China's interests" policy.  Its economy is second-largest ($9 or1 $10 trillion); its footprint is too large not to have a global strategy.  Might be to su[[ort Russia so China can sit in the background and watch trouble. The Axis of Authoritarianism: counties with divers interest that weave to buck the intl system and bend and weave it to convenience.   Done a lot of naval exercises. Russia sells S400 and SU-35 to China'; have oil deals, etc.  Note: 1914, protagonists didn't understand who'd come in with whom in the event of a war. 
Gossip: MIT (Turkish intell) is said to have . . . 
Had the US done more in Syria, we wouldn't be talking about Turkey shooting down a Russian plane. JB:Harry, Harry! Are you speaking of he National Security Council run by Susan Rice?!
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/20/asia/china-isis-non-intervention/