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.
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.
Yeah :(
I was applying for some jobs in china and i saw A LOT of positions for hbrw speakers.
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
No war but class war, not disagreeing there, but also it’s pretty clear there are policy changes and consequences for our elections.
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.
Make them all just citizens with equal voting rights. yes. but not all “israeli citizens.” The name of the state needs to be Palestine because even after the genocide there are still more Palestinians than there are israelis. The existing government system needs to be dismantled because it is clearly broken if a genocidal maniac can rule for decades even while under corruption charges. The IDF need to be disbanded and many of them charged with war crimes. After the majority of the wealthiest israelis leave because they are too racist to live under equal democratic rule, nothing will be left of israel.
Palestinians don’t need israelis to “take care of them” They can take care of themselves. If they can manage the most densely populated city in the world while under a blockade that enforces a near starvation diet with regular raids that arbitrarily kill and imprison the adult male population which the zionists call “mowing the lawn” they can build a functioning state. They need the blockade to be lifted. They need to be allowed to return to the homes their parents and grand parents were forced out of. They can do the rest.
israelis in the other hand have never been able to run a state. the zionist entity has always relied on billions of dollars of aid from the western world. Its entire economy is a gift from the west of highly profitable processing and manufacture jobs that could be done anywhere.
There is no future scenario where Israel or Israelis would be accepted as normal in the region by the masses. The government could make any deals they want, the enmity is deep and won’t go away easily.
Talk is cheap. They could at least put sanctions on Israel.
Turkey is surprisingly quiet here.
This is rich from someone who was just a few days ago excited that Trump had taken over. Claiming that things were better in Palestine because Trump was president. You credited him with the ceasefire, food and aid in the streets, and crowing about how smart you are to have not voted for Harris.
