CHINA AND THE ZIONIST ENTITY
Editorial
By Ibrahim Ebeid.
March 20, 2024
In the early seventies of the past century, I was working at the Palestine Liberation Organization Office attached to the United Nations; the late Saadat Hassan, who was the head of the office, and I were invited to the residence of the Chinese Ambassador dinner in his house, of course, the Ambassador was courteous, and he demonstrated his support to the legitimate struggle of the Palestinians to liberate their homeland and establish the democratic secular state in historic Palestine, but in reality, the Chinese, like any other state in the Worl build their relations with other states according to their interests and not principles.
We have observed the Chinese behavior in the Security Council when the matter concerns Israel; China, most of the time, abstains from condemning the Zionist entity; refraining from criticizing means tolerating the criminal action toward the Palestinians.
Israel recognized China in early 1950, two years after its establishment, but the relations were lukewarm for a long time. Although China and Israel did not normalize their relations until 1992, the bilateral relationship has developed extensively, especially in the economic sphere.
Starting in the early 2000s, ties between the entity and China began to blossom, mainly because the Chinese government started to view Israel as a global technology hub and began seeking to capitalize on Israel’s innovation capabilities to help meet its own developmental needs and strategic challenges.
Since 1992, China and Israel have developed increasingly close economic, military, and technological links. China became Israel’s third-largest trading partner globally and the largest trading partner in East Asia. Bilateral trade volume increased from $50 million in 1992 to over $10 billion in 2013.
Already, Netanyahu has visited China four times, and the relationship with China has become stronger politically and economically, and principles are gone. By 1979, however, China had begun to deal with Israel more pragmatically and less ideologically. This entailed the signing of deals to transfer Israeli defense technology to Beijing. In June 1990, the two countries opened “de facto embassies,” Israel’s Liaison Office of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Beijing and the China International Travel Service office in Tel Aviv. By January 1992, the two countries had established full-fledged relations. Over the past 31 years, China-Israel economic relations have grown significantly. While bilateral trade stood at $50 million in 1992, it reached $22.8 billion in 2021, according to China’s Bureau of Statistics. In 2021–22, China replaced the United States as Israel’s top source of imports, and Israel added China’s currency, the renminbi, to its foreign reserves.
The attitudes of China, Russia, and the United States are similar and identical, based on self-interests, profit, and gains.
These unjust positions and the constant continuation of genocide taught the resistance in Gaza a lesson not to depend on others to liberate Palestine, and the events in Gaza taught the world a lesson and revealed that Israel is a colonialist seller entity that must end and be replaced by a secular democratic Palestine, in all of historic Palestine. Any individual, establishment, or state that deals with the Zionist racist entity or befriends it is considered a partner of genocide in Palestine.
