Why China’s offer to broker a Middle East peace is a bit superficial and self-serving
If Beijing truly wants to take up the Palestinians’ cause it will have to go beyond rhetorical support and doomed resolutions.
Bill Figueroa is a recently minted PhD from the History Department of the University of Pennsylvania, where he wrote his dissertation on 20th Sino-Iranian relations entitled “China and the Iranian Left: Transnational Networks of Social, Cultural, and Ideological Exchange, 1905-1979.” He has also written about modern Sino-Iranian, Sino-Israeli, and Sino-Middle East relations and has had his commentary featured on websites like The Diplomat, Jadaliyya, Mondoweiss, BBC Persian, Entekhab, Le Monde, and Newsweek. Follow him on Twitter @IranChinaGuy
If Beijing truly wants to take up the Palestinians’ cause it will have to go beyond rhetorical support and doomed resolutions.