Attacks may drive Libya to 'anarchy'

BEIJING - Air strikes launched by Western forces against Libya will bring anarchy to the North African country, analysts warned.

Zhang Xiaodong, deputy chief of the Chinese Association for Middle East Studies, said that the military action launched by US and European forces will only add to Libya's domestic chaos, and thus runs counter to the stated objective of the US and its allies to seek an immediate ceasefire in the strife-torn nation.

Gong Shaopeng, a professor of international politics at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing, said that Libya may descend into anarchy as it is a "loosely connected tribal society".