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China analysts are parsing through the Chinese Foreign Ministry's statement on the Israel-Palestinian conflict to look for clues on which way Beijing will go in how it responds to the war. Wen-Ti Sung, a lecturer in the Taiwan Studies Program at ...
Terrified Chinese Students in Israel Provided Near-Realtime Coverage of Saturday’s Hamas Attack
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China’s Fanciful Dream to Play Israeli-Palestinian Peacemaker
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China Commits to Palestinian Statehood
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Chinese Scholars Are (Really) Confident China Can Mediate a Settlement Between Palestinians and Israelis
There is an emerging consensus among prominent Mideast scholars in China that Beijing is now the ideal mediator to help broker a settlement to the seemingly intractable Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Their confidence (which some might see as hubris) is rooted in the ...
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas Arrives in Beijing
Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, arrived in Beijing for a four-day visit that will see meetings with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang. The trip (Abbas’s first visit to Beijing since 2017) is being framed as an attempt to ...
Q&A: What is Mahmoud Abbas Trying to Achieve in Beijing?
We asked Jony Essa, The China-Global South Project’s Mideast editor, to unpack the significance of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s visit to China: What message is this visit sending? Abbas is sending a message to the ...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Heads to Beijing to See if China is Serious About Mediating Conflict With Israel
Mideast diplomacy will be back at the top of the agenda in Beijing this week when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas arrives in the Chinese capital on Tuesday for a four-day visit. The Palestinian leader is reportedly going to see if ...
Three Chinese Workers in Israel Injured in Palestinian Missile Attack
Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip launched a barrage of 22 missiles on the neighboring Israeli city of Sderot on Tuesday, hitting a construction site where three Chinese workers were injured. One worker was hit by shrapnel and taken to the ...
China’s Offer to Mediate Israel-Palestinian Conflict Lacks Credibility, Say Analysts
This week's offer by Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang to facilitate peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority was quickly dismissed as unrealistic by prominent scholars and analysts who closely follow the issue. Qin spoke separately with the foreign ministers ...
What the Israelis Really Want From China (Hint: It Has Nothing to do With the Palestinians)
There's no indication in the Israeli national security community of a strong desire to call on China to help mediate the country's long-running dispute with the Palestinians. After all, Israel is one of the U.S.'s closest allies and China has been ...