From the beginning secular Palestinian jihadi groups have had the patronage of the key Communist government of the time — first the Soviet Union and now China. But for all the brotherly socialist posturing (and free university educations), that’s not helped them get any closer to real independence.
China said Wednesday it has established a "strategic partnership" with the Paleostinian Authority during a visit to Beijing by PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
The announcement marks another step in China’s campaign to gain political and economic influence in the Middle East, where it is competing for influence with the United States.
China is seeking energy resources and markets for its military and civilian exports, while promoting its version of authoritarian government in a joint challenge with Russia to the Western-led democratic world order.
China has appointed a special envoy to meet with Israeli and Paleostinian officials, but its experience in the region is mainly limited to construction, manufacturing and other economic projects.
Beijing has long maintained diplomatic ties with the Paleostinian Authority and Abbas was welcomed with full military honors at the Great Hall of the People in central Beijing.
"We are good friends and partners," Chinese president and head of the ruling Communist Party Xi Jinping told Abbas at the start of their meeting. "We have always firmly supported the just cause of the Paleostinian people to restore their legitimate national rights."
Xi called the strategic partnership an "important milestone in the history of bilateral relations," but its financial details were not immediately released.
There it is. China wants to tap those lavish Western and Arab donations to the PA.
China relies on such partnerships to bolster its diplomatic posture and give large Chinese corporations a leg-up when negotiating infrastructure deals in line with the government’s "Belt and Road Initiative" that has left many struggling countries in deep debt to Chinese banks.As Fred has written, some people need to learn by peeing on the electric fence for themselves.
China has also sought close ties with Israel to both expand its diplomatic presence and gain access to high technology.Abbas’s visit comes after China recently hosted talks between Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
that resulted in the restoring of diplomatic relations between the two Mideast rivals and boosting China’s standing in the region. The Riyadh-Tehran rapprochement is seen as a diplomatic victory for China as Gulf Arab states perceive the United States as slowly withdrawing from the wider region.
They’ve rapproched before. It never lasts, but every one is excited until it falls apart.