Beijing Welcomes Palestinian Leader with Offer of 'Chinese Wisdom' to Broker Peace

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% :Having placed such heavy bets on Abbas, Xi and his top officials insisted they could help broker that long-elusive peace deal, pointing back to their much-ballyhooed diplomatic triumph of the reconciliation brokered between Saudi Arabia and Iran in March.
46% : Xi restated China's support for full membership in the United Nations for the Palestinian Authority (PA), a move opposed by the United States barring a peace agreement between the PA and Israel.
44% :The Guardian doubted the Israeli government would muster much enthusiasm for China as an interlocutor, as they are "wary of China's economic ties to Iran," eager to preserve their alignment with the United States, and somewhat miffed that Beijing has not extended an invitation to an Israeli delegation.
41% : In that environment, Israel is unlikely to welcome "Chinese wisdom" from Iran's allies in Beijing, especially as Iran escalates its "shadow war" against Israel through proxies in Syria and Iraq.
33% : Foreign Policy noted on Monday that China's big diplomatic breakthrough between Iran and Saudi Arabia has not amounted to much in practice over the past three months, including few signs of "de-escalation" and no movement toward peace in Yemen, where Tehran and Riyadh back opposite sides of the Houthi insurgency.
31% : It is actually more straightforward than that: The Saudis lost, and normalization of diplomatic relations with Iran is just cover for that setback," Foreign Policy said.

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