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This seems far fetched given China's traditional insistence that countries' internal affairs should not be subject to external overview, it's undeclared stance
by biorach 3y ago
This seems far fetched given China's traditional insistence that countries' internal affairs should not be subject to external overview, it's undeclared stance that subject populations should be suppressed by whatever means necessary and the still marginal effect of the conflict on its trade.
- shkkmo 3y agoI don't see how military operations outside of a country's legal territory is considered an "internal affair"
- falserum 3y agoGaza is kind of/maybe/sometimes/by some considered part ofisrael.
- shkkmo 3y agoNo, it isn't. China officially recognizes the state of Palestine. The Isreali supreme court itself has determined that Gaza is not Isreali territory.
- Sporktacular 3y agoThen it has no legitimate say over the affairs of Gaza. An Israeli court can say what it wants, but can't have it both ways.
- shkkmo 3y agoThat's nonsense. The supreme court has jurisdiction over actions taken by the Isreali government, regardless of where those actions take place.
- Sporktacular 3y agoIt adjudicates the actions taken by all Israelis. Its jurisdiction should stop at the border it recognises. But it continues however to award land outside Israeli territory to Israeli citizens by ruling on the status of settlements. That is extra-territoriality.
- wharvle 3y agoThe notion that Gaza's more than some variety of closely-held protectorate is either aspirational or a convenient fiction, depending on who's stating it. They aren't even close to having a level of control over their own territory and affairs to be considered a sovereign state. Hell, the West Bank also can't credibly be called a sovereign state, taking into account only facts on the ground and observed behavior, and not what officials say. In some respects US tribal nations have more actual sovereignty, in ways that matter, even though they definitely aren't sovereign states, from an international relations perspective, and functionally nobody treats their tribal territory as meaningfully distinct from that of the US as a whole, in these contexts. However, situations like this, in which rhetoric and de jure policy conflict with de facto reality, open one up to others taking the fiction at face value. And what do you do then? Can't deny it without causing other problems. So now this may be regarded as an international matter because Gaza "isn't part of Israel".
- lostdog 3y agoGaza is more tightly held than Taiwan.
- wharvle 3y agoHeh—that, for fuckin' sure. The fiction there runs the opposite direction, where China pretends (and encourages others to pretend) that Taiwan's less independent than it is, meanwhile just about everyone acts like Taiwan's in fact very much distinct and independent from China, even if they say otherwise.
- kelseyfrog 3y agoI believe parent was referring to the Uyghur genocide[1] not the Territorial disputes in the South China Sea[2]. The line of thinking is that if Israel is subject to international courts/laws regarding genocide for its action, then China will be too. China's participation in judging Israel opens itself to the same judgement. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_South_China_Sea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_So...
- The_Colonel 3y agoThat line of thinking doesn't make sense since Xinjiang is part of China while Gaza isn't part of Israel. One is a domestic question, the other isn't (going by the international recognition).
- kelseyfrog 3y agoChina: But this is a Domestic issue! I don't see folks buying that, sorry. In international realpolitik you play the cards you have and if your rival opens themselves up for criticism you play it. Rhetoric trumps logic in this one.
- maxglute 3y ago[flagged]
- loceng 3y agoGood cop, bad cop theatre of what I call the establishment division.