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"China is a victim of extremist, terrorist activities, and our support for fighting terrorism in this region is beneficial to us, too. As a result, China and those countries are in a closely knit community of shared interests."

Wu Sike, China's special envoy for the Middle East, saying China would do all it could to help Middle Eastern countries fight terror as this was also in China's best interests.

(China Daily European Weekly 08/01/2014 page3)