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Sun 15 October 2023:
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has criticised Israel’s operation in Gaza, describing the action as “beyond the scope of self-defence” and urging Netanyahu’s government to “cease its collective punishment of” Palestinians in the besieged enclave.
Wang made the comments during a call with his Saudi Arabian counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud on Saturday, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
Wang said, “All parties should not take any action to escalate the situation and should return to the negotiating table as soon as possible.”
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In the days since the Hamas strikes, Chinese state media also has painted the United States as a regional villain plotting “behind the scenes” of Middle East conflicts and hinted at a Beijing-led role in ending them.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict “requires a more powerful collective effort from the international community to change it,” the state-backed Global Times tabloid said Sunday.
In some ways, it fits into the opportunistic way China is approaching world crises in its push for superpower status. Xi in particular is seeking more support for his Global Security Initiative, an alternative vision to the U.S.-led international order.
“Increasingly [in] all of these sorts of issues, when there is a conflict somewhere in the world, China sees it as an opportunity to try to undermine the United States — to try to take, essentially, a shot at the United States,” said Michael Singh, a former George W. Bush administration official with Middle East expertise.
China has long been a supporter of the Palestinian cause. It was among the first countries to recognize a “state of Palestine,” and, in June, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas visited China, where he struck a strategic partnership deal with the Chinese leader. Xi used the occasion to unveil his own three-point roadmap to Israeli-Palestinian peace. (The Palestinian Authority governs in the West Bank.)
source:ISRAEL IS ACTING ‘BEYOND SCOPE OF SELF-DEFENCE’, SAYS CHINA’S WANG (independentpress.cc)
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