China has reaffirmed its support for a Palestinian state after Donald Trump’s surprise proposal that the United States should take control of Gaza.
“Gaza belongs to Palestinians and is an inseparable part of Palestinian territory,” Chen Xiaodong, China’s vice-minister for foreign affairs, told a group of ambassadors from Arab states in a meeting in Beijing on Friday.
Any arrangements regarding the future of Gaza must respect the will of the Palestinian people, Chen added, according to a statement from the foreign ministry.
“China has always firmly supported the legitimate national rights of the Palestinian people and the effective jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority over all Palestinian territories, including Gaza and the West Bank,” he said.
He added that Beijing would continue to maintain “close communication and collaboration” with Arab countries.
Friday’s meeting was held upon the request of the Arab states, the Chinese foreign ministry said.
The statement added that the ambassadors had said they “expected China to continue to play a constructive role in safeguarding international fairness and justice and supporting Palestine’s legitimate national rights”.
On Thursday, Guo Jiakun, the foreign ministry’s spokesman, also underlined Beijing’s long-held position against the forced displacement of people, saying that Gaza should never be turned into a “bargaining chip for political gains”.
Beijing has been a long-standing supporter of Palestinian statehood and has repeatedly said that a two-state solution is the only way out of the cycle of violence in the region.
I’m amazed how quickly my personal negative feelings about China are getting diluted right now.
Let’s not forget that China is actively engaged in political and information warfare against the West. Any hypocrisy they can point out will just contribute to the fracturing of alliances between the West and the rest of the world. So it very much benefits them, strategically and financially, to point out stuff like this. Not that I think the people of Gaza will care about the selfish reasons a superpower might have for speaking up for them
If they want to score brownie points by supporting human rights who are we to stop them.
America should counter the Chinese propaganda by advocating for a one state solution called Palestine.
That’s literally what USAID was for. For spreading anti-communist, pro-capitalist, sentiment by feeding the needy. Until the world’s
evilestrichest man got rid of it and showed how nakedly corrupt the US political system isUSAID was also to send weapons to overthrow countries, and bribe countries into abiding by the US will, and stage color revolutions. To send money into the pockets of Elon for Starlink etc.
Not to deny that people were not helped by it, certainly people were, but overal USAID was a net negative on the world.
I think it’s important to make such arguments without neglecting to point out that some very real, very desperate people are counting on the assistance USAID currently provides. People will die because of this.
A much less evil way to handle this is to reroute the funds to some benign organisation who will carry out the existing functions of USAID. But that’s not what Musk is doing. There’s no nuance. Much like his first month at Twitter, he’s just taking a wrecking ball to the government and seeing what’s left standing. Unfortunately the largest imperialist arms of the US government (State Department, DoD) are still left standing, while the one that is currently relied upon by some of the most desperate souls on the planet has been destroyed.
USAID’s feeding of the needy was a fig leaf over its more nefarious work.
It was no secret that USAID was an arm of the State Department and used as a smokescreen for CIA business. But that won’t matter to all the mothers who will watch their infants die because Musk pulled the plug with no warning
Obviously not.
Don’t worry, they’re still abusing minorities in their own territory
I love how effective Americas anti-china propaganda is that anyone can simply refer to the Uighurs to counter any pro-china statement.
Big bad china must have gone into a bunch of mosques and taken the nice Uighurs into concentration camps because china hates Muslims, or something. Surely nothing else had happened.
Yup if we’re expecting any wealthy and powerful person anywhere to do the morally right thing we’ll only be left standing out in the rain. But it’s not rain. It’s piss. Turns out every civilization that killed the wealthy and powerful when times got tough ultimately took the only path weren’t so backwards.
Yeah, that seemed like a big deal a few months ago. Now it just starts to look like they were ahead of the curve.
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The US propaganda machine’s “Uyghur genocide” psyop has been debunked six ways to Sunday already.
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