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Away from Beijing's lofty rhetoric about defending Palestinians, Chinese firms are helping to sustain illegal settlements.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (65 children)

This is why we say "critical support". China gets a lot of things right but this definitely is not one of them and they can and certainly should do better on this.

This is probably the biggest thing most of us who support AES states criticize constantly.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago (62 children)

Do you want China to be another USA? Because interference with the open market and manipulating other nations with tariffs and sanctions is something China promises not to do unilaterally, unless they are attacked in the same way. Thus, China cannot interfere with normal Chinese-Israeli business. Does that mean construction materials and labour will go to construct things where the Chinese government itself may not want? Sure, but it also means the Chinese will never cut you off unilaterally.

The only way to change this is to petition the UN for global sanctions. But USA will clearly block anything with help from their allies. China simply refuses to take any market distorting actions, and like it or not, construction is absolutely normal business activity.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Lame rhetoric.

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