CHINADAILYClick to follow usChemical weapons have rightly been anathema since their horrors were revealed on the battlefields of World War I. Since then, there has been a strong and sustained shared international will to prohibit not only their use, but also their development, production, acquisition, or stockpiling, as set out in the Chemical Weapons Convention that came into force in 1997, and which 192 states are now party to.Thus the United States and its allies have tried to claim the moral high ground when justifying their military strikes against government targets in Syria early on Saturday morning, having previously pointed the finger of blame at President Bashar al-Assad for a suspected chemical weapons attack on the town of Douma.However, the Syrian government has repeatedly denied it was responsible, and the military action by the US, France and the United Kingd
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