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

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      Of course it sucks. As long as the US and it’s allies will continue to block any global action, China cannot make a move or risk reprisal from those nations as well as lose the trust it’s been building up with the global south. It’s nice to imagine China as an all powerful big dog, but in reality China has a lot of weaknesses it has to play around. And on top of that, it’s promise to BRICS and the global south is that China will never play favorites means it can’t act or lose trust. The trust which is tenuously built since China refuses allies.

      The real question you should ask yourself is whether or not China is right and we must move to a multipolar world. If you agree with it and that we should not have a super power hegemon, then sadly blood must be spilled to usher in a new world. And China promises to help construct it no matter who is in charge.

      Now, that all said. My personal opinion is I partly disagree. I don’t think the bloodshed is worth it. I also don’t see another path. It’s clear China had chosen to do this regardless. But that means a lot of wars as the world police goes to sleep. Which sadly means we are going to see a lot more genocides.

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        How much can the contract to send 6000 workers be worth to China? Do they really need the money that bad? They could just not aid the zionist colonialism. Not doing anything would be better than what they are doing. Not even fucking Germany is sending 6000 workers to literally build colonies. I know, they sent weapons instead, which is worse, but still. You can’t frame this as a strategically necessary decision of China. That’s ridiculous.

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        I am not here to say I know better than the CPC leadership, rather that it looks pretty bad to some of those same nations you claim they are trying not to alienate. They simply have no choice but to choose the lesser evil in this case. (not calling the CPC actually evil just a turn of phrase).

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          Well, neutral means neutral. Sadly, we seem to have lost an understanding of the word in this devisive world. Let me try to use two different conflicts to explain what I mean. Hopefully one of them you’ll be less emotional about one or the other to let you see the neutrality.

          The first one is obviously the Russian Ukraine war. China will not sell to Russia anything it wouldn’t be willing to sell to Ukraine. Regardless of the friendship talks with Russia, China maintains it’s neutrality and continues to supply Ukraine with drones and guidance systems. They even prefer them to US switchblades.

          People argue that Myanmar is a Chinese puppet. However, China has been supplying the revolutionaries with weapons as much as the Myanmar regime. It’s not China’s place to decide which government the people of Myanmar choose. So regardless of the global backlash China gets for not stepping in, China’s response has always been step in for whom? China is no one’s opponent.

          China has been working towards a completely neutral world. They can’t just abandon it because some feel the Gaza conflict is a more worthy cause than all the other ones. Neutral is neutral, good or bad.

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            Nah dawg fuck you and your condescending tone about my “emotions”. Listen to what @woodenghost@hexbear.net said.

            You do not actually need to support sending construction materials to build settlements for a fascist govt. There is absolutely no disadvantage from simply not doing that.

            If anything it damages the image of the PRC on the world stage in a lesser but similar way as does every other nation that provides material aid to a genocidal settler colonial state.

            You are way off the mark here and missing entirely the point of what “critical support” means.

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              Of course China does. If China does something for one side, it will do the same for the other. Just like in Russia and Ukraine. Should China stop sending aid to Palestine?

              In the beginning

              https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/china-says-provide-2-million-humanitarian-aid-gaza-2023-10-26/

              In the middle

              https://english.www.gov.cn/news/202403/21/content_WS65fb793fc6d0868f4e8e54c8.html

              This year

              https://english.news.cn/20250219/a55206ed362944b49c23f362cee8527f/c.html

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                Should China stop sending aid to Palestine?

                No ffs obviously not this is dumbass centrist bullshit wrapped in Marxist aesthetic.

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                  It’s not my bullshit, this is what China stated they want. After all, they are not one to judge what a country is or is not. They only judge themselves. Thus, they cannot change the rules of normal business.

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                    China would not be helping Japan build settlements in China if they returned to their fascist ways.

                    China knows all to well that some countries very much can and should be judged.

                    The appropriate analysis is that China gives certain leeway to the uncaring markets of capital in order to try and build/maintain their place in a competitive global order so that they can secure a better future knowing they can’t force a better present to happen today.

                    Not that they are some enlightened form of centrism personified and they won’t choose between evil and good.

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                Oh, so with that aid they paid the Palestinians for the stolen land on which they build settlements for fascists? Did the Palestinians agree to hand over this land in exchange for some food packages? No, well than that’s just like aiding a thief and then throwing some pocket change at the helpless victim as they lie on the ground. Wondering how the value of these construction materials and all the work hours compares to the aid.

                Are you saying they should stop?

                Ridiculous straw man argument.

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                  China’s rule is they will support both sides regardless of what other say about them. They did it for Russia, they did it for Myanmar. They have to be consistent since every other nation always accuses them of supporting the other side. Imagine if you will if they only supported Russia, how would the EU respond? What about the people of Myanmar if they supported the Myanmar Junta against the protestors?

                  What would their argument to the United States and EU be if they are biased in the Gaza conflict when China didn’t side with them on Russia? How would the people of Cambodia feel if China broke it’s own rules and militarily supported Myanmar? Neutral is neutral. Once you’ve chosen that, you can’t really go back on your word.

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                    Once you’ve chosen that, you can’t really go back on your word.

                    Yes, you can. You can always draw a line. And a good place to draw that line would be at literally supporting and profiting of a fascist colonial regime conducting a genocide so horrible it’s impossible to put into words.

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            They aren’t neutral, they send 6000 workers. Did they send the same to the Palestinians? Oh right, they couldn’t afford it.

            I know the meaning of neutral quite well. Neutral means “I work for the one with the most money”. Neutral means complicit. The examples you give are damming in their own right. Reads like a list of war profitieering. I defend China all the time and I’m all for critical support, but seriously, read back to yourself what you just wrote and pretend it’s Switzerland in the second world war selling weapons to the Nazis and the allies, because they care so much about being “neutral”. They aren’t neutral about their bank accounts.

            China has been working towards a completely neutral world. They can’t just abandon it because some feel the Gaza conflict is a more worthy cause than all the other ones. Neutral is neutral, good or bad.

            Read Lenin. Capitalist countries aren’t “neutral” they work together to crush us. We have to work together too. International solidarity is at the heart of Marxist-Leninism. Your ideology is counter-revolutionary. I’m not arguing, I’m teaching. Please self crit.