Out of all the countries out there.... China?!? is setting the example? (although still a bit late). The western world is going to shit. China is a rising Phoenix. What a fucking dystopia we live in. Because China is still a totalitarian regime.
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2026
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Wow, I do have to admit that China is on a roll these days.
Then again, it ain't hard acting like a nice guy with trump around.
China cares about Palestinians as much as the US cares about Ukrainians... not much
Don't pretend like they're good guys. Empires don't care about the lives of people, its just a statistic to them.
They are absolutely going to pull ahead on the world stage, whatever that really means.
But if you have lived in America all your life and been told how we're the gleaming city on the mountain, the land of milk-and-honey and all that pabulum we've been fed for decades and decades, and then walk around in one of China's newer cities you will have a radical culture shock. Then have a medical problem and walk into one of their hospitals.
Fuck, just walk into a public restroom or use their mass transit and you will wonder where the fuck your tax money is going.
Their space program alone gets zero coverage in the US and has done amazing things that will guarantee them the solar system in just a few decades.
Not saying they're some kind of perfect nation, their human rights issues, their abuse of their workers, their racism and xenophobia are still huge and glaring, but it's going to be a lot worse in the US before long.
This is an objectively good thing.
... since the outbreak of the war in Israel, Beijing has classified Israel as a “high-risk area” and imposed a ban on any new Chinese investments in the country.
The South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong-based Chinese propaganda outlet, published just last week that China, Israel continue to collaborate in science and tech despite unrest in Gaza.
While Beijing supports Palestine and has a fractious relationship with Tel Aviv’s closest ally, cutting-edge innovations keep them together.
In a report published just now in February 2026, Lloyd's Bank explicitly says,
Chinese investment in Israel has grown rapidly in recent years, particularly in software, IT services and consumer electronics.
Trade between China and Israel is also at an all-time high since the outbreak of the pandemic, and this hasn't notably changed since the Gaza war (with Chinese exports to Israel have always been higher than imports from Israel, so Israel runs a trade deficit with China).
It's important to note that this Chinese Ballet Vision fund cites losses of its investment since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, and it seems this is the real issue here. China is heavily investing and trading with Israel. Nothing has changed.
This is not much more than propaganda, the numbers paint a different picture. China-Israel business ties are stronger than ever, despite Gaza.
[Edit typo.]
since the outbreak of the war in Israel, Beijing has classified Israel as a “high-risk area” and imposed a ban on any new Chinese investments in the country,
This is not a moral standing by China, it's 100% pragmatic deeming Israel a high risk area.
There is no reason to call China "based" or any other such crazy comments we see here.
Why isn't any other country making this pragmatic choice?
A lot of countries have stopped at least some of their dealings with Israel, especially weapons export and import.
Mind you we don't have an official source that this is true for China, only 1 company that wants to get out of a deal in Israel.
As far as I can tell it's not "especially" weapons export, it's exclusively weapons export. European arms embargoes are good, but China seems to have gone farther here and stands alone in willing to do a larger general ban. According to the article it's not just one company, China has declared that Israel is a "red zone" for investors and have prohibited any investment. Though, sure, this might actually just be something being made up for the lawsuit.
The pragmatic choice would be to continue investing in Israel, which is why everyone else still does it.
They don't care? They don't have a right over private investments?
true
why can they just sue someone for refusing to buy something
especially when buying it would be illegal
why can they just sue someone for refusing to buy something
From the article:
As part of the agreements, the Chinese fund granted the remaining minority shareholders an option to require it to purchase their remaining shares for about $9.5 million, now valued at roughly $11 million, by early December 2025.
especially when buying it would be illegal
Legality in country A is completely irrelevant for suing someone in country B.
Also, in many countries having a realistic chance of winning the case is not a prerequisite to suing anyone for anything.
They're just reading the room. They're not doing it because they think israel is bad, they're doing it because it's economically disastrous to do so. Within the next few years the US will be in the same position if it keeps going the way it is. We'll be too "high risk."
Why is China the only country reading the room?
blackmail
China's the only country Israel can't blackmail?
Others don't want to be antisemitic /s (probably they still get a ton of money out of it)
I disagree. The epstein files prove how captured the entire american political apparatus is by pissrael. In fact, pissrael has done so, to most Global North countries. China taking this stance is actually pretty big when you consider that and the geopolitical implications of declaring their opposition to the American empire.
The more I learn about China, the more I like. Mostly.
A simple case of killing 2 birds with 1 stone: An economically sane decision can be presented as being ethical to generate good publicity with saps all around the world. Particularly effective now that the USA is in such a bad place that people like to sing China's praises instead.
Wow I rarely say this about Chinese government but based.
Good policy for bad (or at least not principled) reasons. It’s for money. They consider Israel “high risk” because of the war. China doesn’t give a shit about human rights. They send their own Muslims to concentration camps.
True. It's a state. I can't think of a time a state did something for purely altruistic reasons.
Could have sworn I saw an article about them curing diabetes the other day:
And I also saw an American tourist use their healthcare system:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUX_RaeEQws/
Sooooooo
Historically the US funded a lot of important medical research. Do you think they did this for altruistic reasons?
Similarly, healthcare is beneficial to the state to keep workers healthy.
States do many things, good and bad, but none just out of the goodness of their hearts.
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Wait, this broken clock has the right time on it
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