It is not particularly about the economy or losing men.
It is just not China's business. Those who created this mess are responsible to clear it off.
The Syrian situation would have been solved much earlier had there not been a specific NATO+Gulf effort to import, train, feed, and equip foreign Jihadists to fight in Syria.
ISIS has evolved from Al Nusra. And, before ISIS, al Nusra was the hardliner terrorist in US book. The FSA was the moderate.
FSA is gone. Now, al Nusra is the moderate and the ISIS is the target.
Why they think they try to fool?
It's everyone's business, leaving it for someone else is not the mature thing to do or the responsible thing to do. America didn't have to help China after WW2, they did anyways(nationalists), did they get benefits? Yes, but it's not like we would walk in there with nothing to show for it.
The blame game is only fun if you are poor and weak, for China, a world leader, the blame game is boring and counter productive as our interests in the ME is not small.
@Nihonjin1051 @SvenSvensonov
agree with the combat and peace keeping thing, and the combat death, I would say we probably won't respond well.
@Nihonjin1051 I agree with
@Genesis - though not for the same reasons. With its own insurgency problems and reputation for suppressing Muslim rights, the last thing China needs is to start doing what the US is doing and exacerbate its problems at home and internationally in the Muslim community. The act of bringing the fight to ISIS will massively increase the incentive of insurgents to attack China and this benefits no one at all - though perhaps it can bring China and the US closure in military cooperation. Still, the risks are too high.
Also, China isn't use to military related deaths, who knows how the general public will react to videos, pictures and stories of Chinese soldiers being killed? Even in a highly restrictive media environment, rumors tend to find their way to people ears and eyes. For a nation that isn't used to or experienced with war, we can't predict how the people of China are going to react to the deaths of their citizens. Can China afford the protests and civil unrest, can it afford to crackdown hard on any dissent? Or would it lets these situations simmer? Perhaps China would end up like the US in Vietnam and its intervention would fail due domestic pressures?
I don't see China's economic transition as justification to continue its path of non-interference (I consider this an oxymoron), I believe the risks are too great for China considering its own already poor reputation abroad and its problems at home.
China can make a difference in this fight, I don't think it should put itself in a position that would further increase its problems with militancy and insurgency in its territory.
Also, what happens if China fails badly - being a bit hypothetical here, but China doesn't exactly have an experienced military... at least not a military with any real world conflicts (training doesn't replicate war no matter how hard you train). What if it turns out China can't make the difference or impact the US can? What does this do to China's military, international perception - especially among its SCS rivals and neighbors and in the US? Can China afford any military failures on an international stage?
Seeing as how NATO response and effect is nothing, I can't see how we can do worse than that.
The insurgency problem is overblown, it's real and it exist, but they are not really a threat.
Think about it logically, why would a normal person want anything to do with terror, they want a good life, what does it matter who the government is. The Western government underestimates our achievements and how desirable the effects are. They fail to see we are the shinning light abroad or domestically.
Only it appears dark because you guys are much better, but drink from a puddle a few times and see how you would see China now.
Our problems at home are overblown, you see HK rising and you think damn China is done, what they don't tell you, or one dude did but is apparently a CCP bot, typical..... We don't like HKers, if we were planning a protest and HK were to, just to spite them we would stay home.
Nobody in China supports them, well not nobody, nobody that matters or in numbers.
So in conclusion, trouble at home over blown, fear of failure(only the fear of death due to inexperience, can't really fail other ways, I mean what more can go wrong), non existent, economy yes, death obviously.
