When will Islamic countries understand China’s ploy to persecute Muslims?

China has been resorting to Islamic countries for some time now to improve its international image which was tarnished during the Corona period and to pursue its business interests. Recently, China called a meeting with Arab and Muslim countries in its country on the issue of war between Israel and Hamas, in which China, trying to prove itself as the biggest sympathizer of Muslims, appealed to the international community to support Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Called for immediate and effective steps to stop the ongoing fighting between the

In this meeting held in China, along with Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Indonesia and Palestine, leaders of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation – an organization of 57 Islamic countries of the world – also participated. It was claimed that China had called this meeting to establish permanent peace in the Middle East. Through this meeting held in China, an attempt was also made to convey the message at the international level that China is the biggest leader of Muslims and it is standing with Palestine amid the Israel-Hamas war, meaning it is standing with the terrorist organization Hamas.

After this meeting that lasted for two days in China, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that being a good friend and brother of Muslim countries, China has always supported Palestine. China wants to protect the national rights of the Palestinian people. The Chinese Foreign Minister said his country firmly supports the Palestinian people’s reasonable demand to restore the legitimate national rights and interests of the Palestinian people and condemns acts causing harm to civilians.

See the irony that even the Islamic countries of the world, which have an understanding of China’s history, seem to be getting trapped in this whirlpool of China or perhaps, due to their own interests, they are deliberately supporting China’s lies and conspiracies.

That China is committing such horrific atrocities on Muslims in its Xinjiang province that no one can even imagine, that China is demolishing or closing mosques in its country, that China is killing the 20 million people living in its country. China is torturing Muslims in every way, China has left no stone unturned in destroying the religious freedom of Muslims within its own country, whereas at the international level, China considers itself a true friend of Muslims and Muslim countries. He is trying to prove that he is a brother and a sympathizer and the biggest irony is that after going to the same Chinese soil, the ministers of these Islamic countries do not even utter a word about the atrocities on the Muslims of China.

The Islamic countries of the world are not able to understand how China is using them only to weaken America’s strategic influence and India’s moral influence in the Middle East. China’s objective is not to serve the welfare of Muslims but to pursue its own business interests.

China’s intentions can be clearly gauged from the fact that during the meeting that China had called with the Islamic countries of the world to find a solution to the war between Israel and Hamas, China signed an important trade agreement with Saudi Arabia. Signed and that agreement was for currency swap. China agreed to a 3-year currency swap agreement between Saudi Arabia’s Saudi Central Bank and China’s People’s Bank of China to expand and facilitate bilateral trade with Saudi Arabia and the two banks agreed to exchange a maximum of 50% of the foreign currency in the coming three years. Decided to trade up to billion yuan under currency swap agreement. It has been mentioned in the agreement that China and Saudi Arabia can take this agreement forward with mutual cooperation. This move of China is being considered as part of the campaign to weaken the dominance of the American currency dollar in the field of international trade and from this it can be estimated that whatever statements China may make publicly regarding the meeting of Islamic countries, If these Islamic countries of the world truly want the welfare of Muslims, then instead of falling prey to this ploy of China, they should crack down on all the terrorist organizations that are spreading terrorism in different parts of the world, including the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas. Their funding routes should be tightly closed and after this, with the help and support of countries like India, we should move forward to find a permanent solution to the Israel-Palestine dispute because China’s objective cannot at all be to establish peace. No matter how much China talks about peace, which has committed unimaginable atrocities on Muslims in its own country and supports terrorists in the United Nations, the reality is that China has never had anything to do with peace and tranquility.

-Santosh Pathak

(The author is a senior journalist and columnist.)