October 2024—The Chinese capitalist-imperialist rulers always claim to support the Palestinians’ struggle against Israel’s genocidal assaults. Beijing has criticized Israel’s genocidal bombardment of Palestinian civilians and condemned violations of international law. However, the Chinese rulers’ economic ties to the genocidal Israeli government expose the hypocrisy of their supposed support for the Palestinian struggle. China has a vested interest in defending the Zionist war criminals!
The Chinese government has used nationalist discourse to mobilize private enterprises to invest in Israeli technology. It has promoted the growth of Chinese private investments alongside Chinese state-affiliated investments in Israel since 2014. China is Israel’s second-largest trading partner, with over $24 billion in 2022 alone. In 2021-2022, China replaced the United States as Israel’s top source of imports. The Chinese capitalists buy arms and tech from the genocidal Israeli regime.
Chinese capitalists invest heavily in Israeli high-tech, research, agriculture, biotechnology, food, water, and construction. Chinese cars, especially electric vehicles, are top sellers in Israel. Chinese capitalists have invested in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and “BRI-like” projects more in Israel than in any other country in the region, even though Israel has not formally signed on to the BRI. Chinese capital controls two commercial shipping facilities in Israel’s main port, Haifa, plus a smaller one.
During the escalating genocide in Gaza, Israel’s ambassador to China has stated that the Zionist regime wants more Chinese investment. The Zionist war criminals see China as important to them. As US imperialists’ capability weakens, the Zionist fascists seek to compensate strategically.
Since at least 2014, Zionist rulers have been working to build ties with Russia, India, and China. These countries’ rulers have criticized Israel’s genocidal actions against Palestinian masses. But these same rulers never want Palestinian lives to get in the way of capitalist profits.
Chinese capitalist Xi Jinping’s “four-point Israeli-Palestinian peace plan” emphasized China’s adherence to the “two-state solution.” He said it offered “sustainable security” for Israel while calling for “peace and development” between Israel and Palestine. The “two-state solution” (two capitalist states) would keep the Zionist war criminal regime and deny millions of Palestinians the most basic human rights.
By investing heavily in Israel, the Chinese rulers enable the Israeli rulers to strengthen their imperialist technology and launch even more brutal, deadly, and fascist genocidal attacks against the Palestinian masses. Therefore, the Chinese rulers and ALL capitalist-imperialists are complicit in the Zionist regime’s brutal genocidal crimes against the Palestinian workers. The cold-blooded Chinese and Israeli rulers enjoy lives of luxury, while Palestinian civilians are left helpless and at risk of getting blown into charred human flesh by the Zionist war criminals’ technology, as hospital staff desperately try to save civilians’ lives.
To end all this capitalist-imperialist terror, we need to build a mass International Communist Workers’ Party (ICWP). We need to mobilize millions of workers, soldiers, sailors, and youths to bury all the fascist murderers and their profit system forever with an international communist revolution, including in China! We call on Red Flag readers who can translate into Mandarin to help by translating this article and other ICWP documents for our web site. Help get Red Flag to people you know in China so that there can be an ICWP collective there.
Start by building a collective wherever you are. This is the only way we will end capitalist-imperialist genocide forever. The working class has no nations; all nations belong to the capitalists. Workers have nothing to gain from supporting any ruling class and their deadly profit-motivated wars.
Communism — real communism — is our future, where collectivity, egalitarianism, and share-and-share alike will replace deadly competition, discrimination, and wars. All workers will be welcome wherever we go. Production and education will be to meet the needs of the masses, not for the profits of the capitalists. No one will live better or worse than anyone else. There will be no more racist, sexist, or nationalist divisions. No more nations and borders, imperialist wars, and genocides. Communism — and only communism — will break the deadly spell of capitalism forever!
PALESTINIANS, ISRAELIS, AND ALL WORKERS OF THE WORLD, LET’S UNITE FOR COMMUNISM!