israelI-palestinian conflict
Standing at a bus stop one snowy Sunday evening in Beijing, an elderly lady asked me, when recognising me as a foreigner, where I was from.
Upon replying from South Africa, she went on to explain China’s compromising of its historic principle of non-interference in the case of fighting colonialism in Africa and apartheid in South Africa in particular.
It was the only time, she argued, that China would compromise on this core characteristic of its foreign policy.
This core characteristic of Chinese foreign policy was further interrogated
