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Excuse me?
The US built its state through genocide and slavery, and split from Britain in order to cement its independent interests in that realm.
What strange view do you have of China that you think talking about the processes of a socialist state in international politics is remotely the same as talking about the birth of a settler nation (the US) that has been terrorizing and exploiting the world since it became globally powerful? What forum did you think you posted on?
Just look at the post history, lol. Most of what you said went over their head already.
Hmm, I looked. Far as I can tell, their thing is that Russia and China are failing a moral test on Palestine and so are traitors as a whole. If so, I can certainly understand their frustration, but the criticism needs to have more depth than "they [allegedly] could be doing x and they aren't".
One of the reasons I try not to say much on China in detail is because I don't actually know all that much about how it is in the details and so trying to judge properly what it could or couldn't be doing logistically in this moment would be a wild guess at best. For all I know, there are experienced members of the CPC who think China should be doing more on the Palestine issue and are trying to make it happen. But I don't know and I never see people citing stuff like that. Instead, people tend to talk about morality in isolation from conditions and it comes across as something like "the foreigner has to be one of perfect victim, perfect savior, or member of the villain squad, there is no inbetween." I don't think China is perfect (nor do I think anyone or entity is) and I wish that people who criticized them would go beyond these categories.
When will we (leftist) finally graduate from liberal thought such as "Overton Window", "Brainwashing" and general supremacy of moralism. Its CLASS ANALYSIS that is our primary modus operandi and Historical Materialism is our eye. You will never lecture people into doing the right thing - ESPECIALLY when it will have an negative economic effect on them.
Return to your point, I agree with a 100% - the incessant need to declare china as your enemy is very strange (not really) for the western left - like they actively want china to this revisionist "bad country" so they can support us state line in "good leftist way". My heart breaks everyday the genocide of the Palestinian continues and I wish like most of this site that it would end no matter. But the brains ought to know that WISHING and WANTING the world to be a way, does not make it so. We need the collective power to actually create the change we want to see, and the first step is perceiving what is in front of us, not what we WISH to see.
China will not help unless Hamas is the undisputed authoritative voice of the Palestinian people, unless a significant amount of Muslim - especially arab countries actually want to oppose the west. Even the most internationalist force that was the soviet union only helped when there was enough support for resistance, they never created communist revolutions in vast colonial estates of the west out of thin air. Not only is the harsh truth that the PRC's responsibility is to the Chinese people first and foremost, but also that china increasingly meddling in an outright hostile (more and more governments sign the Abraham accords for example) region is contrary to their grand multipolar non-interventionist order they are selling as the alternative to the west empire.
Comrades in the middle east need to create the strong, UNITED, and organized anti-west force that china and russia are willing to court.