now do Taiwan
This is the only time I can fully back China on someting.
Broken clock.....and all that
Russia, Iran and China are regularly correct when they’re criticising the West tbh. It’s an easy way to score points that can’t really be countered.
In this case, 'the West' has been calling for a two state solution since the 1940's...
Though their actions haven’t ever actually supported it. If the US and EU had sanctioned Israel, for example after the land grab of 1967, they could have forced a state on 1967 borders, if not 1948 borders. But instead they’ve just been giving them weapons and cash that has fueled the genocide instead.
It's not like China's has done anything more than public statements either though. China is one of Israel's biggest trading partners after all.
China is sending aid to Gaza, is pressuring regional partners to stop infighting, and Chinese weapons are "accidentally" ending up in Palestinian hands. Chinese shipping is blatantly showcasing the viability of Yemen's sanctions by restricting shipments to Israel in exchange for transiting the Red Sea (putting the ships at risk of getting caught in a US/UK strike). China, in general, has a policy off no-military-intervention outside of it's immediate vicinity and hasn't fired ammunition at an enemy since the fall of the Soviiet Union, and hasn't fought at scale since 1979. China does not express its power with "who has a bigger stick."
Are we also forgetting that China mediated the Iran-KSA rapprochement, which had direct implications on the Israel-KSA relationship?
People who say "rare China W" you can tell they get all their news from "lets all buy NFTs and do whatever the rich want us to do" publications.
China has been hitting W after W after W after W with no signs of stopping. So many Ws you have to actively try not to see at least one.
A foreign policy matter that China and I agree on? What a timeline
Yeah this specific universe timeline is getting weirder by the second.
Should urge the UN to support a single state solution and Palestine's full membership instead.
I'm flabbergasted, I really would have never expected this move from China/Pooh Bear.
Kind of confused what China gets out of this......they never say anything like this without the outcome being financially and/or politically advantageous.
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?
"Yo, yo! Homies, check it! There's something messed up with this war. Israel's killing civilians, Palestinians don't have civil rights, Netanyahu doesn't know what his endgame is... I know this sounds crazy, but I think the two-state solution might really work."
"China figured it out? China? This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts."
By this I mean--if China is able to see the human rights problem inherent in Israel's actions, even as they are about to stomp Taiwan for being the slightest bit autonomous, then we really do live in the Bad Place.
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