Xi Jinping expressed dissatisfaction with the injustices suffered by Palestinians and affirmed China’s support for an independent Palestinian during an unprecedented China-Arab States Summit and a China-Gulf Cooperation Council (China-GCC) summit in Saudi Arabia’s capital.
“It is not possible to continue the historical injustice suffered by the Palestinians”, the Chinese president said at the opening of the Riyadh-Gulf-Chinese Summit for Cooperation and Development.
“Xi emphasized the necessity for granting Palestine ‘full membership in the United Nations’ and said Beijing ‘supports the two-state solution and the establishment of a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital’.
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| Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas meets Chinese President, Xi Jinping in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. |
He said he considered the Chinese-Arab summit a ‘defining event in the history of Chinese-Arab relations’.
Relations between the two ‘are based on mutual interest in peace and harmony’, he said.
‘The Chinese and Arab sides should strengthen solidarity and cooperation and build a community for a closer future’, he said as he welcomed Arab participation in the global security initiative.
‘We are keen with the Arab side to implement joint pledges such as strengthening development, health and food security’, he added”. -Ikram Imane Kouachi, Anadolu Agency
It’s only a matter of time before Arab nations start to signal a desire to hedge their bets on the BRICS economic alliance and abandon its pact with member states of NATO.
Until then, it will be interesting to see how long it will take for the Israelis to abandon the United States in an attempt to appease the Chinese despite the budding Sino-Arab alliance.
And, as for the summit in Riyadh, it could potentially spell the beginning of the end of the Petrodollar if Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Algeria were to officially join forces with Russia, China, India, Brazil, and South Africa to combat the G7 countries.