funding both the Palestian authority and the Israeli IDF is not socialistic by any stretch of the imagination, not matter how far certain people might want to desperately stretch their interpretation of it through mental gymnastics whereby they're somehow playing both sides in a historically progressive way; if China started actively supporting revolutionary movements and foreign leftists more seriously then people on this site who otherwise forgive their policy through real-politik interpreted as historically progressive foreign policy would champion it, but you can't have it both ways).

China can't have their cake and it too when it comes to FP, you are absolutely right they did not chose the socialist path here.

China's FP rethoric is basicaly entirely centered on being the opposite of American imperialism, instead of debt intervention(IMF traps) they do cheap/interest free; instead of military presence they focus on humanitarian aid or infrastructure financing; instead of venture capital exploitation they focus on bilateral relations and so on.

With that it means they have to deal with every single crooked corrupt and specialy even regressive right-wing if not outright fascist governments out there including in the ME for example. Yeah nobody here should mistake multipolarity and fighting American imperialism with the explicit support of shitholes like Saudi Arabia, Israel, Iran etc.

But the path the CPC chose means they have to embrace this embarrassment and contradiction or else their entire rhetoric falls apart.