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Resisting Western influence is fine, but Russia/China must also show they are with the people of Syria, not the tyrant.
what people? if there were still a valid notion of peoplehood in syria, we wouldn't be witnessing this amount of bloodshed and this civil war. and if syrians needed to be somehow fashioned into a people but only with u.n. help, then they didn't deserve to be a people to begin with.
china has no duty to syrian people, for which there is none right now; syria's most recent political constitution was irrevocably destroyed (even if assad somehow finds a way to survive this) and is not yet reconstituted, as evidenced by the relentless fighting between various factions. china's moral duty is thus to the possibility of that reconstruction of syrian peoplehood, and china did just that yesterday, very nobly vetoing another anglo-saxon attempt to usurp syrians' power to make themselves a people again.
any further talk of "syrian people" from you or the americans is a cheap tactic to substitute rhetoric for a well-defined political concept.