Very disappointing and condemnable to see China collaborating with Israel’s apartheid regime. A reminder that China even tried to win a contract to build Israel’s illegal settler railway in the West Bank. China must abandon this wrong EU-like policy https://t.co/KAbshNo4ht https://t.co/xom3ZNT4LH— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) October 22, 2021
Unfortunately not too surprising considering China still naively supports the antiquated two-state solution (which will never work) and trades with both. China still does materially support Palestinians including provision of water desalination projects and solar power generation in Gaza, but then also does cringe shit like trading with Israel. Vietnam and Cuba also support the two-state solution sadly and even Maduro reportedly expressed a desire to reestablish relations with Israel back in 2017 (Chavez had cut off all diplomatic ties with Israel in 2009 and expelled the Israeli ambassador). Vietnam is also increasingly becoming a major trading partner with Israel unfortunately. Cuba, China, Vietnam, and Venezuela still do continually condemn Israel's actions against Palestinians though. The DPRK is really the only AES state left that I'm aware of that still has a great position on the Israel-Palestine conflict:
Israeli–North Korean relations are hostile.[1] North Korea does not recognise Israel, denouncing it as an "imperialist satellite".[2] Since 1988 it recognises the sovereignty of the State of Palestine over all of Israel, except for the occupied region of the Golan Heights, which is internationally recognised as part of Syria. Israel considers North Korea and its nuclear missile program as a major threat to global security. It has called for international action on the issue. At times, Israel has been the subject of fiery threats from North Korean state media.
most communist countries have taken a hands off approach to diplomacy to avoid notice i feel. also i feel like the position of being hands off is easy to defend to a wide swath of people tbh
the ussr used to do a lot of interventions and proactive diplomacy while also stating a billion reasons as to why (one example includes stalin reading out a list of reasons why they signed the molotov-ribbentrop pact) and i feel like the range of debate there might have weakened the party to be honest.
Unfortunately not too surprising considering China still naively supports the antiquated two-state solution (which will never work) and trades with both. China still does materially support Palestinians including provision of water desalination projects and solar power generation in Gaza, but then also does cringe shit like trading with Israel. Vietnam and Cuba also support the two-state solution sadly and even Maduro reportedly expressed a desire to reestablish relations with Israel back in 2017 (Chavez had cut off all diplomatic ties with Israel in 2009 and expelled the Israeli ambassador). Vietnam is also increasingly becoming a major trading partner with Israel unfortunately. Cuba, China, Vietnam, and Venezuela still do continually condemn Israel's actions against Palestinians though. The DPRK is really the only AES state left that I'm aware of that still has a great position on the Israel-Palestine conflict:
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most communist countries have taken a hands off approach to diplomacy to avoid notice i feel. also i feel like the position of being hands off is easy to defend to a wide swath of people tbh
the ussr used to do a lot of interventions and proactive diplomacy while also stating a billion reasons as to why (one example includes stalin reading out a list of reasons why they signed the molotov-ribbentrop pact) and i feel like the range of debate there might have weakened the party to be honest.
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