They certainly don’t support Israel! They have always supported Palestine!………And Palestine supports Hamas! 🤔

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/11/israel-hamas-china-middle-east-policy-00120995

China appears to have decided that its road to greater global clout lies through the Palestinians — no matter what hits it takes for going soft on Hamas.

Beijing’s initial statement failing to condemn Hamas for this weekend’s attack drew immediate backlash from Israeli and U.S. officials for minimizing the brutality the Palestinian militants had visited on Israel.

Alienating Israel, however, could come at high cost for China. It has lucrative tech-sector trade with the country, often importing more than $1 billion worth of semiconductors a year from Israel. And Beijing’s efforts to position itself as a mediator between Israel and the Palestinians may now be damaged.

China is “clearly afraid of offending the Arab side. And they sort of bow their hat lightly in the direction of the Israelis but being very careful while they do so,” said Robert Ford, a former U.S. ambassador to Syria now with the Middle East Institute, a Washington think tank. “The Israelis will tend to look at that and say this is not a neutral arbitrator.”

In its first statement following the strikes, China urged both sides to “exercise restraint” and embrace a “two-state solution.”

In response, Yuval Waks, a senior official at the Israeli embassy in Beijing, expressed disappointment because he said Israel saw China as a friend, according to a Reuters report.

“When people are being murdered, slaughtered in the streets, this is not the time to call for a two-state solution,” Waks told reporters Sunday.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who was leading a congressional delegation to China starting over the weekend, lectured Chinese leader Xi Jinping for going too soft on Hamas.

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No. You don't destroy lies by simply banning them. You don't destroy lies using government policing powers. You destroy lies by teaching truth so people can see through the lies and the liar. There will always be someone trying to manipulate you to their ends. We need to learn and teach our children so they can decern the difference between manipulated and honest interpretation and how they can analyze what they are told. TikTok is out of line but the current standards of our education and the lack of moral social cultural guidance is the real problem. The problem that we all share.