Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called on the international community to take urgent action to stop the “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza. A delegation of foreign ministers from the Palestinian Authority, Indonesia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan is in Beijing this week for talks about the war.
“We will work together to quickly calm the situation in Gaza and restore peace in the Middle East as quickly as possible,” the representative of the Chinese dictatorship told Arab diplomats visiting the country. “A humanitarian catastrophe is occurring in Gaza,” he stressed. For Wang Li, “the situation in Gaza affects all countries around the world and calls into question the human sense of right and wrong and the lower limit of humanity.”
According to Freedom in the World 2023 report by Freedom House, China is not a free country9 out of 100 points in the institution’s freedom ranking. In the same ranking, Israel is considered a democracy and receives 77 out of 100 possible points.
China is considered a dictatorship because it severely restricts freedom of expression and education, politics, economics, justice and trade unions are controlled by the government, the Internet and the press are not free, among other parameters that clearly characterize regimes. In all these and some other respects, Israel is the opposite, a democratic and free country, a unique regime in its region.
The Uyghur Muslim minority is a constant target of persecution by the Chinese government, which has set up “reeducation camps” (officially “vocational education and training centers”) in the Xinjiang region of northwest China. The Chinese justify the mass arrests as “fighting extremism,” but human rights organizations disagree.
The Chinese regime’s constant totalitarian practices, reflecting the narrative of Hamas and Islamic extremism, demoralize Israel’s accusations against Gaza. Recently, American President Joe Biden called Xi Jinping a “dictator.”