China is positioning itself as Gaza peace broker. Earlier this year it also underwrote a rapprochement between sworn enemies Iran and Saudi Arabia, and last week hosted a Middle East summit. Why the interest? Because it wants Middle East oil and gas, while aiming to eclipse the USA’s control by offering a ‘business first, values free’ approach which local rulers, sick of US sanctions and\/or pettifogging interference in their Orwellian domestic regimes, will find hard to resist.<\/p>\n
The Chinese ‘Communist’ Party is not concerned with the plight of innocent Palestinian or Israeli workers. This is a power play to determine ‘the principles and the rules that are going to run the world order in the 21st century’ (tinyurl.com\/3parwvry<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-248890","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/248890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}