Um, I am not sure how I feel about this. Why would Xi support a two-state solution? Isn’t it more justified to have a one-state solution and return all of the land to the Palestinians? Won’t a two-state solution eventually lead us back to another genocide? This feels off. I did not expect Xi to make such a statement.
If China called for a One state solution the media across the Empire would announce China’s desire to wipe the Jewish people off the Earth and the propaganda mill would go into overdrive to drum up even more military support for Israel and Taiwan in response. Also China is a member of The Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations. So, they’re going to mostly back the UN position on most issues.
That’s fair, I know China really tries to be careful.
China will suffer propaganda even for the positive things they do, like the de-radicalization of terrorists in Xinjiang. This is not the reason they advocate for a two-state solution, they do it for pragmatic reasons, and to avoid conflicts. It seems more logical than thinking the Chinese leadership will consider how the West would react before doing anything
Since Deng Xiaoping, China adopted a “not my business” foreign policy, perhaps except for the war with Vietnam, which was a disaster.
I think we’re saying the same things though. I didn’t mean to suggest that China is seeking Western approval or anything. Just that advocating a one state solution right now would be taken as a provocative position and likely escalate this conflict and others.
“During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative."
The only thing China needs to do for the US to gather up arms against it is simply to just exist. It is not what China does or stops doing that gathers a reaction from the US: it is the US’ wish to react against them in itself that causes it.