Yun Sun quoted in Sputnik International on China and the Islamic State

MOSCOW (Sputnik), Alexander Mosesov — As the United States looks to bolster the anti-Islamic State coalition with potential allies in Asia, the largest player in the region, China, is unlikely to join, experts told Sputnik on Tuesday.

 

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“China’s willingness to contribute substantively also depends on whether such contribution will increase the IS threat to China’s security or make China stand out and become a bigger target of Islamic State than it currently is,” Yun Sun, fellow with the East Asia Program at the Stimson Center, told Sputnik.

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