I think because of the Gaza genocide they’re desperate to at least both-sides the situation.
The whole world knows they’re guilty of enabling the genocide there, of all but orchestrating it by proxy. But they probably hope to use this situation to rile up the Muslim world against China with the feeling that in 4 years assuming the Gaza situation is “resolved” by the zionoists either completing the genocide or stopping partway and declaring victory, that the Muslim world will be ready to forget yesterday’s news and hated enemy and embrace their new hated enemy China which unlike the US is 100% sanctioned by the gulf state comprador governments and media. And they could be quite right. At the very least it lets them muddy their own involvement by saying “oh that was those Jews, not us, they tricked us, we love Muslims, it was a mistake, we didn’t realize”.
I think because of the Gaza genocide they’re desperate to at least both-sides the situation.
The whole world knows they’re guilty of enabling the genocide there, of all but orchestrating it by proxy. But they probably hope to use this situation to rile up the Muslim world against China with the feeling that in 4 years assuming the Gaza situation is “resolved” by the zionoists either completing the genocide or stopping partway and declaring victory, that the Muslim world will be ready to forget yesterday’s news and hated enemy and embrace their new hated enemy China which unlike the US is 100% sanctioned by the gulf state comprador governments and media. And they could be quite right. At the very least it lets them muddy their own involvement by saying “oh that was those Jews, not us, they tricked us, we love Muslims, it was a mistake, we didn’t realize”.
Even at the hight of the #FreeXinjiang stuff, most Muslim majority nations agreed with what the PRC was doing to counter internal terrorism, iirc