China is expanding its role in UN peacekeeping operations overseas at a time when the US is rethinking its global duties.
Greater participation in peacekeeping gives more clout at the UN, where western countries often control prominent departmental posts. Some Chinese strategists even believe it will help give China a voice in any eventual settlement to the conflict in Syria, where Beijing has so far stayed on the sidelines.
Among the five permanent Security Council members, China is now the largest contributor to peacekeeping forces, deploying about 2,600 of the total 88,000 “blue berets”.
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