{"id":326541,"date":"2025-12-01T19:24:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/why-didnt-china-veto-mondays-sc-resolution-on-gaza-amb-chas-freemans-analysis\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T19:24:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:24:52","slug":"why-didnt-china-veto-mondays-sc-resolution-on-gaza-amb-chas-freemans-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=326541","title":{"rendered":"Why didn&#8217;t China veto Monday&#8217;s SC resolution on Gaza? Amb. Chas Freeman&#8217;s analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>On Tuesday, I conducted a very informative and far-reaching <a href=\"https:\/\/justworldeducational.org\/2025\/11\/prof-mearsheimer-slams-the-security-councils-adoption-of-trumps-alleged-peace-plan\/\">conversation<\/a> with <strong>Prof. John Mearsheimer<\/strong>, as part of our <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/Gaza-and-world\">\u201cGaza &amp; the World\u201d<\/a> series. At the end of it, both he and I remained perplexed as to why neither Russia nor China had used their veto to block the (appallingly colonial) U.S. draft resolution on Gaza. Soon thereafter, Amb. Chas W. Freeman, Jr., read the transcript of that convo and responded with a few quick and very smart thoughts of his own.<\/p>\n<p>Freeman is someone who knows both China and the politics\/diplomacy of West Asia very well. Read his biography <a href=\"https:\/\/chasfreeman.net\/biography\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, he wrote to me that he didn\u2019t find the Chinese abstention on Monday \u201cat all inexplicable.\u201d His surmise on Beijing\u2019s reasoning, reported here with his permission, went as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u2014 China practices strategic neutrality.\u00a0 It does not take sides in disputes between third countries with which it seeks to maintain good relations.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 China traditionally defers to the Arab consensus and many of the Arabs, to their great shame, endorsed a version of the Trump plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 China (and Russia) agree with you and John Mearsheimer.\u00a0 They\u00a0foresee that the\u00a0Trump plan for Gaza is unimplementable\u00a0and will further diminish the reputation of the United States.\u00a0 Why try to stop that?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 China will be criticized only by those who disagree with the shameful position of their governments on this matter.\u00a0 China deals with\u00a0the powers that be.\u00a0 It stays in with the outs but does not pander to them.<\/p>\n<p>For all these reasons, while I wish the Chinese position were otherwise, I am not surprised by it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>By the way, back in September I\u2019d conducted a substantive and very intriguing conversation with Freeman himself under the title <a href=\"https:\/\/justworldeducational.org\/2025\/09\/gazas-genocide-our-shifting-world-order\/\">\u201cGaza\u2019s Genocide &amp; Our Shifting World Order.\u201d<\/a> Several of the insights that he shared during that conversation prompted me\u2013 and the whole of the Just World Ed board\u2013 to launch our current <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/Gaza-and-world\">\u201cGaza &amp; the World\u201d<\/a> project. Obviously, we\u2019ll hope to get Freeman back onto the series as soon as we can!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, I conducted a very informative and far-reaching conversation with Prof. John Mearsheimer, as part of our \u201cGaza &amp; the World\u201d series. At the end of it, both he and I remained perplexed as to why neither Russia nor China had used their veto to block the (appallingly colonial) U.S. draft resolution on Gaza. 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