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Away from Beijing's lofty rhetoric about defending Palestinians, Chinese firms are helping to sustain illegal settlements.

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

First of all terrible source, but I said is China building settlements there?

China is building Israeli settlements on Palestinian land, that is a massive difference from just trading with Israel.

[–] Joncash2@lemmy.ml -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

China is investing in Crimea, yes.

https://worldcrunch.com/world-affairs/chinese-investment-in-crimea-is-political-backing-for-russia/

*Edit. like how your trying to find inconsistencies in Chinese policy. The best part about China is they are always consistent. So I knew the answer to your question before even looking it up with no prior research.

*Edit 2. I also love how the west is saying the same thing your saying. It's political, it makes China look bad. Take my side China sempai

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Your article says that a Chinese company is looking to invest in Crimea, not that they are already doing it. I'm quite sure that if there were Chinese companies currently building in Crimea, we would have heard it in the newspapers.

And Crimea would not even be the best comparison because China does support the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Whereas China says it does not support the Israeli colonialism in the West Bank.

[–] Joncash2@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh ho you almost got me. Crimea wasn't attacked much. So not much reconstruction necessary. But guess where those Chinese construction crews are? That's right the Donbas.

https://english.nv.ua/business/chinese-firms-started-developing-russian-occupied-regions-of-ukraine-nv-analysis-50490190.html

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So they are rebuilding in the area the Ukraine govt has been shelling civilians for over 8 years?

I fail to see the comparison to Palestine here. Also Crimea literally voted to join the RF and Donbas region was prevented from holding such a vote by the Ukraine govt.

The war in Ukraine has zero to do with settler colonialism and framing it that way is frankly disgusting in the face of what is going on in Palestine or what has gone on in the US for hundreds of years.

[–] Joncash2@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago

ha ha ha ha you got nothing, got it.

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