China has called on the United Nations to implement the two-state solution and grant Palestine full membership in the world body, as a way to end the long-standing conflict with Israel and achieve peace and stability in the Middle East. In a position paper released on Monday, China said that the current Palestinian-Israeli situation […]
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It’s pretty simple math. They get to look like the good guys. Pretty important when they’ve got all sorts of investments in Africa and the Middle East.
And for a lot of those countries, China is easily the lesser of two evils. Says more about us in the West than about them though.
Fucking over America’s ally in the ME?
Israel is a strong US ally, this would weaken Israel and thus the US, which is their main geopolitical rival. That’s all there is to it, simplistic zero-sum thinking, just like the rest of their diplomatic efforts. They are using their troll armies to prop up Hamas for the same reason.
Plus, the two-state solution is the ‘diplomatically correct’ option. India echo’d the same opinion just last week.
Except the USA also wants a two-state solution?
Not in the way and at the time China does. Like the article said, the US will veto a full UN membership of Palestine.
Especially since China has it’s own two-state issue ^^
China understander has logged on to remind everyone that the US will keep meddling in Chinese affairs.
Considering much of your “western democracy” was built on imperialism and slavery, it seems like its easier to bully China than to do self reflection.
Clearly China is the real victim here.
A few actually