{"id":55903,"date":"2023-06-12T02:27:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T17:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/11\/chinas-palestinian-moment-is-about-global-standing-rather-than-peace"},"modified":"2023-06-12T02:27:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T17:27:14","slug":"chinas-palestinian-moment-is-about-global-standing-rather-than-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55903","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Palestinian moment is about global standing rather than peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts quash claims by Beijing that the Palestinian Authority president\u2019s visit will facilitate new Israeli-Palestinian peace talks<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinian Authority president\u2019s imminent state visit to China is believed even by senior Palestinian officials to be aimed at bolstering Beijing\u2019s credentials on the world stage, rather than a serious attempt to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.<\/p>\n<p>Mahmoud Abbas\u2019s four-day visit, which is scheduled to begin on Tuesday, has been described by Chinese state media as aimed at facilitating new talks predicated on a two-state solution to the decades-old conflict. It also comes on the heels of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/10\/iran-saudi-arabia-agree-restore-ties-china-talks\">Beijing\u2019s recent success<\/a> in brokering a detente between the Middle East\u2019s two major religious and geopolitical poles, Saudi Arabia and Iran.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/11\/chinas-palestinian-moment-is-about-global-standing-rather-than-peace\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts quash claims by Beijing that the Palestinian Authority president\u2019s visit will facilitate new Israeli-Palestinian peace talksThe Palestinian Authority president\u2019s imminent state visit to China is believed even by senior Palestinian officials to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3788,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,212,399,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-palestinian-territories","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3788"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55904,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55903\/revisions\/55904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}