China is able to assist the Middle Eastern countries in taking control of their own destinies and removing the long-standing US hegemonic control, according to Chinese experts speaking at a press salon held in Beijing on Monday. The US war crimes and human rights abuses in the Middle East have made more and more Middle Eastern countries, especially those major regional powers, realise the importance of strategic autonomy and development.
More than 70 people
attended the All-China Journalists Association event with the theme "Human
Rights Violations in the Middle East by the United States," including
journalists and diplomats from nations like the US, UK, Canada, Russia,
Kazakhstan, Japan, and Singapore as well as countries in the Middle East like
Iran, Iraq, Jordan, and Egypt.
Chinese scholars who
study the Middle East and human rights issues have examined the horrifying
records of US human rights abuses in nations like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria,
including war crimes involving the killing of civilians and stealing oil from
relevant nations. They have also criticised US military actions that serve to
ignite the conflict of civilization, such as burning copies of the Koran, as
well as US acts to tolerate or even indirectly support terrorist and extremist
forces in the region.
At the press
conference, Hoda Mohamed, a reporter for Rose al-Yousef, an Arabic weekly
political publication published in Egypt, posed the following query to Chinese
experts: "What potential impact may China have on the Middle East issue?
Can China assist Middle Eastern nations in controlling their own destinies? Can
China support or assist Middle Eastern nations to stave against US meddling and
intervention?"
According to Professor
Wang Lincong, senior research fellow and deputy director-general of the
Institute of West-Asian and African Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences, many Middle Eastern nations, including China, are developing nations
with the same ambition to advance their shared prosperity.
According to Wang, the
Middle East has undergone a favourable transition in recent years with a
developing mentality of strategic autonomy in several of the countries in the
region. "More and more Middle Eastern countries are displaying their
independent and autonomous diplomacy by upholding justice in international
relations to get free of the influence from the West, which is the evidence of
this development," says one observer.
The relationship
between China and the Muslim world has not been impacted—in fact, it has
improved—despite the US's attempts to stigmatise China through propaganda
warfare that entails spreading falsehoods and rumours about China's Xinjiang.
Many Muslim nations have sent delegations to Xinjiang to learn from China's
experience with governance, according to analysts.
After the
Russia-Ukraine crisis, the US made a concerted effort to isolate Russia, but
the Middle Eastern countries—including major powers like Saudi Arabia and
Egypt—insisted on maintaining their neutral stance rather than implementing the
anti-Russia sanctions that the West had initiated. They also increased
cooperation and communication with Russia to address the energy and food
crises, which experts noted is evidence that the Middle East is keeping its
distance from the US to demonstrate their strategic autonomy.
Another positive
development, according to Wang, is that many Middle Eastern nations now
emphasise development after learning the terrible lessons of the "Arab
Spring" and a string of unrest and instability in recent years.
The UAE, Kuwait, Qatar,
and Turkey, among many other nations, have also released ambitious growth
objectives, according to Wang. Examples of these plans include the Egypt Vision
2030 and the Saudi Vision 2030.
Most importantly, the
Middle Eastern nations are looking to China to help them achieve economic and
social change and to elevate their international standing. This cooperation
between the two regions is growing despite the COVID-19 pandemic, and many
nations have linked their own development plans to China's proposed Belt and
Road Initiative (BRI), according to the expert.
Wang cited successful
outcomes in the areas of infrastructure, banking and investment, cultural
exchanges, the digital economy, high technology, as well as the collaborative
creation of the COVID-19 vaccine.
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