China slams ‘strong-at-expense-of-weak’ policy of US

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, center bottom, poses for a picture with delegates during the Middle East Security Forum at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on November 27, 2019. (Photo by AFP)

China censures the United States for its “selfish” policy of destabilizing the Middle East by what Beijing describes as siding with the strong at the expense of the weak.

Speaking at the two-day Middle East Security Forum in Beijing on Wednesday, Chen Xiaodong, China’s assistant foreign minister, said Washington “sides with the strong at the expense of the weak, which has been a prominent factor behind the security predicament of the region.”

“The United States, the world’s only superpower and one with tremendous influence in the region, has pursued a selfish and unilateralist policy,” he added.

Jawad Anani, former deputy prime minister of Jordan, in an opening speech sought Beijing’s broader role in regional developments. “We hope that China could play a bigger role in the political and economic security of the region.”

Ahmed Ould Teguedi, Mauritania’s foreign minister, said at the forum’s opening ceremony that the people across many parts of the world want an end to the US dominance. “Both China and Russia have benefited from the anti-US sentiment in the Middle East because both the ruling elites and ordinary people hope to see an alternative to US hegemony.”  

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Since taking office, President Xi Jinping has overseen a concerted effort to expand Chinese influence in the Middle East and Africa.

In July 2018, Xi pledged $20 billion in loans for economic development to Arab states.

Beijing has also increased its involvement in neighboring Muslim countries, such as the multi-billion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.

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Many participants at the forum also blamed Washington’s backing of Israel, including a decision by the administration of US President Donald Trump to recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel’s “capital,” for a halt in the so-called peace process.

Last week, the Trump administration effectively backtracked on Washington’s four-decade policy on the illegal status of Israeli settlements built in the West Bank.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Israeli settlement expansion was “not per se inconsistent with international law,” in an announcement that drew widespread international condemnation.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has recently warned that Palestine could fully sever relations with the United States after the White House defied international law and backed Israeli settlements built on occupied Palestinian land.

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“We are ready to go to a complete breakdown of relations with [the US],” Abbas told Russian media on Tuesday, when Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank marked a ‘day of rage’ against Washington’s much-criticized policy shift on Israel’s land grab attitude.SHARE THIS ARTICLE

SOURCE: PRESS TV

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