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 wonder when the non Western world will finally drop the “two state” boondoggle. Obviously the West will never give it up, but surely people on the outside can see how it’s not a real solution?
Is the real solution to just make them all Israeli citizens and to heal the division by taking care of the innocents they have terrorized and oppressed.
If they could fix this problem there is perhaps hope for humanity. I want to be an optimist, but the world seems to have a different plan.
The real solution is to make them all Palestinian citizens after deporting and arresting the ~50% of Israelis that supported the genocide long after international bodies called it genocide.
Great that they’re supporting Palestine diplomatically I guess, but so far they’re still trading with israel, even if with some “bureaucratic obstacles”
I guess that’s the drawback of positioning yourself as an alternative to the US that doesn’t interfere with foreign politics. The USSR was openly funding armed Palestinian resistance like the PFLP.
Yeah, the fact that China continues to have relations with Israel is a really bad look.
I guess that’s the drawback of positioning yourself as an alternative to the US that doesn’t interfere with foreign politics.
That right there is why I’m really worried about the next 4 or more years right now as a citizen of the USA. Like, we’re just going to create this power vacuum through dumbass Don’s executive fun time and China will happily exploit that and lap up the material rewards.
I feel like I’m watching a game of Civilization get played by a moron. It’s excruciating. Only way any of it makes sense is that Trump literally is a Russian agent because otherwise why the fuck is he trying to drive our country off a cliff?
The previous president was a literal zombie. At some point you have to realize America is ran by billionaires who do not care about anything except short term profits
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’s feeding of the needy was a fig leaf over its more nefarious work.
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.
Ah yes, the classical “only their actions matters” response that all racists use
Talk is cheap. They could at least put sanctions on Israel.
… But not for Uyghurs
Give me a single picture of a neighbourhood in Xinjiang that looks like a neighbourhood in Gaza. Xinjiang is a 1.5m sq km region, how come there is nothing out there of such a massive place.
There are hundreds of videos of foreign tourists in Xinjiang looking for any sign of a genocide and they can’t find anything, is it possible that you have been lied by the same people that have lied time after time?
The person you replied to just said China is not giving support to Uyghurs.
Someone: A is not supporting B. You: A is not bombing and genociding B and everyone saying so is lying!
Sure, but how is that an argument? You have neither argued for or against the claim that China is not supporting them, and comment OP didn’t say they are bombing and genociding them, just that they are not supporting them, so that’s a bit of weird thing to deny unprompted.
Investing billions in raising the quality of life so people don’t do terrorism is not genocide and never will be.
Uyghurs have joined the labour force, how did China get away with this 😫
Supposedly that’s a US psyop. Probably according to those downvoting you.
No its not a us psyop they just signal boost it. The architect of the Uyghur genocide lie is a German Christo-Fascist named Adrien Zenz. He has has posted undeniable nazi apologia on twitter. He is part of the “victims of communism” foundation who literally count every killed nazi soldier who invaded Russia or was protecting concentration camps as “victims” of communism.
So its not an American psyop. Its a fascist psyop.
They do a lot more than just signal boost Zenz.
LOL… But Taiwan is ours. phucking asshats everywhere
Why do you think that Taiwan official name is “republic of china”?
“LOL… but the confederate states of America is ours. Phucking asshats everywhere” -Jefferson Davis
What makes you so sure that Taiwan isn’t part of china? Both the Taiwanese government and the mainland government agree that Taiwan is part of China. So does the usa and every other nation in the world.
