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China’s foreign minister said Saturday that Israel has gone too far in responding to last week’s invasion by Hamas, China’s official news agency reported.

Speaking to Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Israel’s actions have extended beyond self-defense.

According to Xinhua, China has an interest in helping resolve the conflict and the underlying issues involving the Palestinian population.

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[–] [email protected] 193 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He's not wrong. But it's worth remembering that when China faced a far smaller provocation from their own restive Muslims, in Xinjiang, they responded by locking up a large fraction of the population in vast reeducation camps...

[–] [email protected] 69 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Not saying that's right, but at least they didn't bomb the camps...

[–] [email protected] 68 points 10 months ago (167 children)

I think if they felt the need to they would have. China and Israel's government both place about the same value on the lives of people who get in their way, China is just a lot more self conscious about its international image.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They raped and tortured them form what I understand.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There's also the issue of the potential mass organ harvesting from people in China's "Reeducation Camps"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Gong_practitioners_in_China

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 10 months ago (1 children)

maybe the chinese can give them some tips, I heard they're pretty experienced in handling minorities...

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

"you just build a giant factory around them and start exporting"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And some camps for them to concen....to focus and recreate.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 10 months ago (2 children)

wow, says by the nation who abuses Filipino fishermen, claiming they own the entire West Philippine Sea

[–] praise_idleness 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hey you're missing out the part where they literally run concentration camp torturing Uyghurs!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Dude, Huawei allegedly partnering with China to identify Uyghurs.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Projection gaming. Classic China lmao

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Speaking to Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Israel’s actions have extended beyond self-defense.

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

So many Palestinians dead....do you understand how much free labour you could've gotten out of them?

[–] [email protected] 60 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Because the Chinese government treats Muslims so well, right?

I wonder what they would do if the Uyghurs revolted... oh wait, we do know, we have precedent, just look how they treated their students.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

The Chinese are more frugal in their methods of genocide, but the disregard for human life is about the same.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No but they are forced into re-education and labor camps and have their organs harvested among other things

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2021/06/china-un-human-rights-experts-alarmed-organ-harvesting-allegations

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Nope, just got kidnapped and their organs stolen.

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[–] hoshikarakitaridia 57 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm very inclined to ignore West Taiwan's position on matters of ethics and morality.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Genocidal China has problem with more genocide? Whut?

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago

Lol wtf is this, the onion?

[–] IamRoot 36 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I thought the CCP hated Muslims too.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

Here's an idea? Let the Chinese government administer Gaza! They have experience reeducting Muslims right? Then all Gazaouis muslims will become Jewish, Christian, atheist, you name it! Possibilities are endless.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (5 children)

So Palestine is now supported by russia, Syria, Iran, China, all the greatest and most fair countries in the world.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (21 children)

At the “start” of this, I didn’t really have an opinion. But that’s mostly due to lack of knowledge and the complexity of the issue.

I was initially siding with Israel as they were hit first, but their response has made me rethink things.

I’m still really undecided and am unqualified to make an opinion anyway.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

"As they were hit first."

Whooboy. You have to go far, far, far back in history, buddy.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

The graphs here go to 2008 and the situation has been going on for decades before that

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

It's OK not too have a side. Israel and Palestine have been going at it for so long and the history is so complex that there is literally blame on both sides.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

The fact that you consider yourself unqualified to make an opinion probably makes you more qualified to do so than 95% of the idiots out there whose opinions are already firmly established.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Do you feel the need to take a side

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (4 children)

It's really complicated. If you trace back why people did what they did, including motivations, you'll end up centuries back. I stopped in the Russian revolutionary time period last time I tried.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"Before the Hamas incursion and subsequent Israeli military response, it was believed that Israel and Saudi Arabia, driven by a common animus toward Iran, were working toward a normalization of relations, a development that could have shifted the dynamic in the Middle East."

Who wants the dynamic in the Middle East to remain unchanged?

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