China’s Response to the Wars in the Middle East

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The rapidly escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon prompted a strong reaction from the Chinese government this week. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with his Lebanese counterpart Abdallah Bou Habib on Monday at the UN in New York and condemned Israel's actions as “indiscriminate attacks against civilians."
It's notable, though, that neither Wang nor other Chinese officials made any mention of Hezbollah's missile strikes on targets in Israel, including those that hit civilian areas.
The deteriorating security environment in the Middle East is a critical time for China, which is transitioning from a strategy of "hedging" to one that is increasingly focused on "wedging."
Jonathan Fulton and Michael Schuman, senior nonresident scholars at The Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C., join Eric & Cobus to discuss their new report on China's Mideast strategy and Beijing's new regional priorities.
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@chinaglobalsouth 5 дней назад

The Atlantic Council: China’s Middle East policy shift from “hedging” to “wedging” by Jonathan Fulton and Michael Schulman: tinyurl.com/286pyh3o

@zefreak 5 дней назад

Michael Schuman's analysis so far is typical of what I see a lot in western China analysts - an abundance of charity given to the US and Europe for the state of the Middle East and Africa today, while China and other 'rivals' are framed as purely opportunistic and self interested. I hope he brings more to the table during the rest of the discussion.

@zefreak 5 дней назад

I can't take him seriously at all when he mentions Anthony Blinken as seriously working on a ceasefire and drawing moral equivelancy between China and US foreign policy - he seems to not want to express his position explicitly but he clearly doesn't understand how the global south views the issue, as the US arming and supporting a genocide and doing nothing to reign in its puppet regime

@octavia7408 5 дней назад

Exactly, he is pretty much projecting.

@w.z.6062 5 дней назад

Totally agree. Seems like China is taking advantage of what’s going on in the Middle East, surprisingly enough, they do have their principles and moral standards, and so does the global south.

@w.z.6062 5 дней назад

Totally agree. Sadly, they see China as taking advantage of the situation in the Middle East, Surprisingly enough, China does have its principles and moral standards on those issues, and so does the Global South.

@w.z.6062 5 дней назад

Sadly, the two analysts see China as taking advantage of the situation in the Middle East, as if China or the Global South, could not and should not have their principles and moral standards on these important issues.

@zefreak 5 дней назад

They seemed to tiptoe around US interests in the Middle East too - there is a reason that Israel is largely immune to criticism in both parties. I also found their references to the Uyghurs as an attempt to draw a moral equivalence between the two issues as quite disgusting and self serving, a way to deflect from their own 'sides' complicity in something much worse.

@albback8176 5 дней назад

The fact is that even the countries in the ME are not united in a common position. Arab countries don't even care about Palestine. Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and GCC states could be more proactive in pressuring Israel to stop aggression, but they haven't. When Iran launched missiles to retaliate against Israel bombing the Iran consulate in Syria, Arab countries actually helped to intercept those missiles. The international community cannot help the ME until the ME helps itself, and there is no unity there. US behavior has been disqusting. They speak about negotiating a ceasefire, but they are not serious. The US government is religiously fanatical in their evangelical beliefs, encouraging a supposed prophesy of the coming end-times where Israel is the central battleground to defend. Congressional applause of Neanyahu speaks volumes about US g3n0c1da1 complicity. They refuse to stop providing weapons to Israel, and for Schuman to criticize China on Xinjiang is extremely hypocritical considering multiple US wars in the region, regime change operations, destabilizing efforts on the ME economies, etc. Schuman can jump a cliff, as far as I'm concerned. Please interview members of Code Pink, as they have been vocal in speaking out against US Congress, and can provide insight into this matter. To be quite honest, if a biased organization like the Atlantic Council is given air time, then so should other voices. I would also suggest other speakers such as David Oualaloo of Geopolitical Trends channel, Pascal Lottaz of Neutrality Studies, Carl Zha of Silk and Steel Podcast.

@truthaboveall7988 5 дней назад

they are owned by the US of Israel or they’re citizens would have long ago demanded standing up for Palestinians of their legitimate Govt’s

@SpiritsBB 4 дня назад

Israel and US conducting genocide, and the bald dude’s like, “China bad bad boy”

@MyVoice-d2l 5 дней назад

we support China Africa good cooperation all welcome to China Asia

@louiselu6757 3 дня назад

Very disappointed. I came to CGS to hear a more balanced view and get a different perspective that we don’t usually hear in the West. I could have just turned on CNN or FOX for these western talking points from both Schuman and Fulton. 👎