China has reaffirmed its support for a Palestinian state after Donald Trump’s surprise proposal that the United States should take control of Gaza.
“Gaza belongs to Palestinians and is an inseparable part of Palestinian territory,” Chen Xiaodong, China’s vice-minister for foreign affairs, told a group of ambassadors from Arab states in a meeting in Beijing on Friday.
Any arrangements regarding the future of Gaza must respect the will of the Palestinian people, Chen added, according to a statement from the foreign ministry.
“China has always firmly supported the legitimate national rights of the Palestinian people and the effective jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority over all Palestinian territories, including Gaza and the West Bank,” he said.
He added that Beijing would continue to maintain “close communication and collaboration” with Arab countries.
Friday’s meeting was held upon the request of the Arab states, the Chinese foreign ministry said.
The statement added that the ambassadors had said they “expected China to continue to play a constructive role in safeguarding international fairness and justice and supporting Palestine’s legitimate national rights”.
On Thursday, Guo Jiakun, the foreign ministry’s spokesman, also underlined Beijing’s long-held position against the forced displacement of people, saying that Gaza should never be turned into a “bargaining chip for political gains”.
Beijing has been a long-standing supporter of Palestinian statehood and has repeatedly said that a two-state solution is the only way out of the cycle of violence in the region.
Make them all just citizens with equal voting rights. yes. but not all “israeli citizens.” The name of the state needs to be Palestine because even after the genocide there are still more Palestinians than there are israelis. The existing government system needs to be dismantled because it is clearly broken if a genocidal maniac can rule for decades even while under corruption charges. The IDF need to be disbanded and many of them charged with war crimes. After the majority of the wealthiest israelis leave because they are too racist to live under equal democratic rule, nothing will be left of israel.
Palestinians don’t need israelis to “take care of them” They can take care of themselves. If they can manage the most densely populated city in the world while under a blockade that enforces a near starvation diet with regular raids that arbitrarily kill and imprison the adult male population which the zionists call “mowing the lawn” they can build a functioning state. They need the blockade to be lifted. They need to be allowed to return to the homes their parents and grand parents were forced out of. They can do the rest.
israelis in the other hand have never been able to run a state. the zionist entity has always relied on billions of dollars of aid from the western world. Its entire economy is a gift from the west of highly profitable processing and manufacture jobs that could be done anywhere.