Beijing is quietly reassessing its Syria strategy as a new leadership tests its appetite for risk and engagement The fall of Bashar Assad’s government marked a decisive rupture in Syria’s modern political history, but it did not erase Damascus from Beijing’s strategic horizon. Instead, it forced China to reassess how it engages a fractured state led by unfamiliar figures with a terrorist past, burdened by legitimacy challenges and economic ruin, yet still occupying a pivotal geopolitical