sad.man.loves.vgc said:
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No. It's backing Palestine's submitting of it's bid....
China's reduced it's support for Palestine ever since Mao Ze Dong died.
They're only supporting the Palestinian bid because they know America will veto it, and can use this to increase relations in the region after the beating it's taken by basically being against every arab spring revolution.
China largely dropped the anti-Israel rhetoric after Mao Ze Dong died, and actually, Israel is their second best weapons supplier and best supplier of US arms technology. (Well, outside of hacking.)
I'd expect at best an abstention, unless they make some pretty good silent deals with Israel to make it up to them.
It's worth noting that originally, China backed the Israel led actions against a Nuclear Iran. Backing off only due to Iran being attacked likely cutting their oil supply.
Although, I think his point above, wasn't that China didn't support Palestine, it's that it DID support the bid, and therefore the less then 10% of GDP number isn't correct.
That said though, i'd point out that very few countries actually do support an independent Palestine, including very few middleastern countries, those who did fight wars over it in the past just used it as an excuse to landgrab. (See Jordan's annexation, and egypts removal of the Palestinian government.)
