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China’s role in helping Mideast realise strategic autonomy


  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.

"We developed mutual trust by working together in these sectors. and thus improves the outlook for the development of the Middle East. Despite the continued volatility in the region, China and the Middle East's collaboration has advanced to a new, better level, giving us cause for optimism "added Wang

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