Xi and Putin present united front over Israel-Iran crisis, in veiled message to Trump

China and Russia position themselves as a voice of mind, conflict The United States is thinking of entering – these are Optical Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, a phone call Thursday.

US President Donald Trump Joins Israel While attacking Iran, the rapid-spiralling conflict between the two sworn enemies in the Middle East offered another opportunity to publish Beijing and Moscow as an alternative to the US power.

According to the Kremlin, they strongly condemned Israel’s actions during their calls for Putin and Xi and called them the UN condition and a violation of other international legal norms. (The elephant in the room, of course, Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine is Russia’s own international violations – Beijing constantly refused to condemn.)

In Beijing reading, Xi hit a more measured tone, and contrary to the Foreign Minister, who made a call with the Iranian counterpart last week, he explicitly condemned Israel.

Instead, the Chinese leading parties called for firing “Israel özellikle especially to further as soon as possible to prevent further rise and regional spread.

And in particular, in a message covered with Trump, Xi stressed that the “great powers”, which has a special impact on the parties of the conflict, should work to cool the situation, not the opposite ”.

Beijing has long accused Washington of being a source of instability and tension in the Middle East – and some Chinese academics are now taking over the Iranian crisis to emphasize this point.

Middle East Specialist Liu Zhongmin at Shanghai International Research University, connected the last exacerbation to the uncertainty created by Trump’s second presidency and the chaotic, opportunistic and operational nature of the Middle East policy.

“(Trump) seriously weakened the authority and reliability of the US policy in the Middle East, weakening the ability to threaten and deterre the regional competitors while eroding the leadership and image of America among the allies of America” written This week in the state media.

Another Middle East ‘Forever Foreign’?

Some Chinese online commentators noted that Trump appears on the verge of attracting the United States to the Middle East forever in the Middle East.

At the beginning of the second period, the authorities close to Trump, Washington’s focus and resources in China’s Indo-Pacific to resist the ambitions of China’daki again repeatedly emphasized. Nevertheless, in five months, wars in Ukraine and Gaza continue to get angry-and Trump is now weighing the US participation in the Israeli-Iranian conflict.

Beijing is not interested in seeing a war that can overthrow the regime against Iran. Under the supreme leader Ayatullah Ali Khanenei, Iran emerged as a great power in the Middle East and a vital counter -weight for US domination – just as China tried to expand its diplomatic and economic footprint in the region.

In 2023, Beijing helped a surprise cooperation between belt rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran-an agreement that shows the desire to emerge as a new power flirt in the region.

China has long been supporting Iran for its seats at the Oil imports and the UN Security Council for a long time. In recent years, the two countries have deepened their strategic ties, including joint maritime exercises alongside Russia. Beijing welcomed Tehran-BRICS-BRICS-BRICS-BRICS-BRICS, led by China and Russia to challenge the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the US-led world order.

Iran is also a critical knot in China’s Kemer and Road Initiative (BRI), global infrastructure and investment driving. The country is located near the strategic Gwadar Port, an important Bri Police Station in Pakistan, which provides access to the Indian Ocean of China, and is limiting the Hormuz Strait, a vital chocint for the import of Chinese oil from the Persian Gulf.

Like Russia, China offered to be a potential mediator in the Israeli-Iranian conflict and took part as an alternative to the peace broker and the US leadership.

According to Chinese reading, during his call with Putin, the XI has made four broad proposals to solve the Iranian nuclear issue through dialogue and increase tensions, including protecting civilians.

Meanwhile, Xi Foreign Minister Wang spent an intensive week on the phone by talking to his colleagues in Iran, Israel, Egypt and Oman in a diplomatic social assistance.

Nevertheless, Beijing, when it comes to the conflict, is willing to do and remain unclear what he can do. Israel’s Gaza, in the early stages of the Chinese war made a similar offer And he sent a special ambassador to the region to encourage peace negotiations – ultimately efforts to give little things in terms of concrete results.

To have peace in the Middle East, especially for a country with very little experience or expertise in mediation of long -term, stubborn conflicts – in a deeply divided region deprived of a significant political or security existence.

And even if China’s war in leverage-Ukraine continued to be broadcast as a neutral peace broker of China, Putin proposed diplomatic cover and highly needed economic support to help maintain war efforts.

Nevertheless, at a time when America’s global leadership is under the increasing examination of the global South, especially in the eyes of the global South, it can be considered as a symbolic gain for Beijing.

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