China Is Fueling Hamas Attacks | Opinion

From Newsweek.com (Nov. 26):

One of China's most cynical strategies in its all-encompassing struggle against the United States is to cast itself as a peacemaker while claiming that America fuels conflict. Beijing propagates this false narrative even as it ignites bonfires.

This Chinese doublespeak was on display at the BRICS virtual summit last week, when President Xi Jinping proposed a six-point plan to permanently stop the fighting in Gaza. The Chinese ruler called for an end to "all violence and attacks against civilians," the securing of "humanitarian corridors" and additional aid for Gaza, "the establishment of an independent State of Palestine," the convening of an "international peace conference," the adoption of U.N. General Assembly and Security Council resolutions, and the implementation of "practical measures to prevent the conflict from spilling over and endangering stability in the Middle East as a whole."

Many foreign observers are buying Beijing's China-desires-peace propaganda line. "What China really wants in the Middle East is order," writes Omer Aziz, a former foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government, in the Globe and Mail. "A regional war is not in China's interests if it wants to grow economically and keep its own interests—principally Taiwan—in line."

Yet Xi Jinping is not promoting peace in the Middle East. He is rather continuing to stoke war. China's actions in recent years reveal not just that China has been pushing war in the Middle East, but that it knew it was doing so. China, after all, has been continually backing Iran's militant Shiite regime, which openly talks about war and consistently works to destabilize the Sunni states in the Gulf region.

China has for decades been aiding the relentless drive of the Islamic Republic of Iran to develop nuclear weapons. Iran received Chinese uranium-enrichment technology and equipment through the China-sponsored nuclear-black-market ring of Pakistan's A. Q. Khan. And China-proxy North Korea could never transfer ballistic missiles to Iran without Chinese approval, something it has done consistently in recent decades.

Moreover, China has been supplying arms used by proxies of the Islamic Republic. Hamas, for instance, appears to possess old Chinese-made weapons, presumably supplied through Iran. Likewise, the U.S. Navy in 2021 and this year seized Chinese weapons in transit to the Houthi militia in Yemen, another Iranian proxy. Richard Fisher, a China military analyst at the International Assessment and Strategy Center, told me that Beijing also provides weapons to Hezbollah, Iran's third major proxy. [read more]

Not surprising. The Chi-Coms will do just about anything to hurt America and our allies. Definitely not a friend. And yet they will discriminate and oppress the Uyghurs.