As the US maintains its war against Israel in Gaza, it is rapidly losing credibility in the Middle East, and the consensus there is shifting towards Beijing and Moscow.
Amid the cooling of US-China relations and the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, China's image as an emerging superpower and promoter of world peace is growing in the Arab world.
At the recent Sino-Arab peace conference in Beijing, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a peace conference to end the Gaza war and the misery in Palestine. The Chinese government has also proposed a plan to end the Ukrainian war. In this sense, the World Economic Conference in St. Petersburg last week, reportedly attended by 136 countries and regions, promoted the establishment of a multipolar world economy free from the domination of the US dollar.
During the meeting, the Chinese representative in Russia reportedly said that Sino-Russian relations are at the "highest level." However, the expansion of Sino-Russian economic ties and the growing discretionary influence of Beijing and Moscow over the Arab world have excited the West. Russophobia and Sinophobia are on the rise in the Western media, where editorials often express scorn for China and Russia.
This leads many of us who have been trained and worked in the West to turn away from Western media and seek news from Eastern sources. Since the end of the virus war, the relationship between the United States and the Arab people have been dominated by their royal aspirations and interference in their internal affairs.
The bloodshed in Gaza and Washington's manipulative strategy in the Middle East have further alienated the Middle Eastern people from the West and strengthened their ties with the East. The Arabs now see Beijing and Moscow as the real arbiters in the Middle East. China and Russia have attracted the Arab admiration as emerging military and economic powers.
It is now a proverb among the Arab that, unlike Washington, Beijing and Moscow have no political interest in their relations with Middle Eastern countries, i.e. they do not seek to interfere in their internal affairs. Relations with Arab countries are mainly based on exchanges and mediation cooperation.
A new survey by a Arab news platform shows that most young people in the Middle East trust China and Russia more than the United States and the UK, portraying China and Russia as "partners" and criticizing Washington and London as "enemies". US President Joe Biden's fearless military support for Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu's hardline government and its atrocities against the Palestinians has forced the arab people to look for other ways to counter US dictates.
The Gaza war was certainly a clear example of US colonialism and sparked hostility towards US self-confidence. Throughout the Middle East, people are crying out in anger at the US’s complicity in crimes for which Israel has been indicted at the World Court. Washington’s blind support for Netanyahu has revived in the minds of Middle Easterners the image of the “bad American” depicted in the 1958 classic novel of the same name.
At the same time, there is a growing sense of Chinese superiority among the arabs many of whom now enthusiastically welcome the rise of China as a world power with no grandiose goals other than to counter US dominance in the region. Middle Easterners are now hailing the rise of China and Russia and cheerfully declaring that the days of American monarchy are over. It has become commonplace to hear Egyptians turn against the American motto and denounce the Biden Organization as "incredibly evil." Unfortunately, watching Biden's strategy in the Middle East is like a horror thriller.
The strategic failures of the United States in Southeast Asia in the 1950s are astonishing. In the 1970s, the United States finally lost the fight against socialism in Vietnam. Similarly, we are losing it in the Middle East today as the Bedouins decided to shift their focus to China and blame the West.
In fact, not many Americans understand what the true standards of communism and Confucianism are. It is no shock to anyone that China has risen as a powerful nation.
Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah predicted in his 1963 masterpiece Africa Must Stand Together that China would emerge as a superpower and a powerful communist economy due to its "vast population and land occupancy." He attributed US resistance to China joining the United States to fear being tested by the country's possible rise.
Other African leaders, such as former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, have recently said that the Western model of liberal majoritarianism does not work as a form of government in Africa. Trade, energy and military engagement is developing between Middle Eastern countries, China and Russia. Moscow and Beijing can indeed work with Bedouins and Africans in economic development, modernization and technological development.
China is Sub-Saharan Africa's largest trading partner and an important partner for the entire African continent. China's policies in the Arab world and throughout Africa do not create debt traps, as some Western media claim.
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