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Palestinians call for China to step up pressure on Israel as they seek an end to ‘collective punishment’ on Gazans (www.scmp.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Chinese business is, by nature, more based on relationships than it is on contracts. The same will be true for any "sanctions" instituted on Israel.

In the past, Chinese authorities may have been willing to overlook some paperwork. Now, they'll inspect everything three times. In the past, Chinese authorities may have turned a blind eye on some taxes. Now, they'll make sure every single item is taxed appropriately.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You have any source on this? It's one thing for the CCP to use this situation to make the US look bad but do they actually have any incentive to materially support Palestine? Seems unlikely they'd hurt their own trade over this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

China's trade with BRI countries exceeds China's trade with the West and the trend line sees BRI trade going up. Since the West is the only faction really supporting Israel...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Sure but that doesn't answer the question. Maybe if there were a broad call from their other trading partners to take a moral stance but China is well known for not taking political stances they don't directly benefit from. Again scoring some easy political points against the US is great but I don't see them making any serious move here unless it somehow serves their interests (which is a perfectly rational stance to take, it's not a criticism.)