In recent years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been providing assistance and incitement to the terrorist organization Hamas. This may not come as a surprise to many.
Let’s delve into how the CCP has been supporting this terrorist organization since the attack on innocent Israeli civilians by Hamas on October 7, 2023.
According to a report by Newsweek based in New York, back in January of this year, “the Israel Defense Forces claimed they found hidden Chinese-made supplies in Gaza, including equipment such as bullets for M16 assault rifles, rifle scopes, automatic grenade launchers, and communication devices.”
While there is no clear evidence to prove that these weapons were directly provided to Hamas by the CCP, it is worth noting that so far, Chinese diplomats and state-owned media have not publicly condemned Hamas for using Chinese weapons.
The CCP government has been leading calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, effectively helping Hamas maintain its interests without facing significant consequences for its terrorist actions.
Breitbart News reported that just ten days after the Hamas terror attack, the CCP’s mouthpiece, Global Times in Beijing, started promoting a false moral equivalency by pretending to be “neutral,” condemning all violence but supporting Hamas and seeking protection for them from any Israeli military retaliation.
This is the basis of the CCP’s continuous calls for a ceasefire in Gaza. According to a report by the South China Morning Post based in Hong Kong on November 2 last year, the CCP continued to echo Hamas’s rhetoric, with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi urging Israel to “stop the ‘collective punishment’ of the people of Gaza.”
In line with this, another CCP mouthpiece, People’s Daily, reported that on December 20, Zhang Jun, then China’s permanent representative to the United Nations, reiterated this stance during a briefing to the UN Security Council, emphasizing, “We urge Israel to immediately change its course of action, halt all indiscriminate military attacks and collective punishment on the people in Gaza.”
The CCP also supports Hamas’ line: urging global efforts for a two-state solution but conveniently not mentioning Hamas and the October 7 terrorist attack. They endorse various UN ceasefire resolutions and facilitated a meeting between representatives of the conflicting Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, in Beijing on April 30. If helping the CCP replace the US as the primary power broker in the Middle East means engaging with Hamas, then the Communist Party sees no problem with it.
Iran stands as the main supporter of Hamas, along with Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad, among other anti-Israel terrorist groups. On the diplomatic front, CCP leader Xi Jinping rolled out the red carpet for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in early 2023 at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing for face-to-face talks.
NBC News reported that Xi Jinping explicitly voiced support for Iran in a public statement, saying that “China supports Iran in safeguarding national sovereignty, resisting unilateralism and hegemony.” Following the meeting, the two countries signed 20 cooperation agreements amidst US sanctions on Iran’s nuclear program and oil industry.
Reuters reported that economically, Iran joined the CCP-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization in September 2021, with China becoming Iran’s largest crude oil customer in 2023. Oil sales revenue directly funds the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which provides command and control, intelligence, planning, weapons, and logistical support to Hamas and other terrorist organizations.
This close connection was reaffirmed when Fox News reported that on April 1, Israel conducted airstrikes near Damascus, killing Iranian General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a commander in the elite Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Syria and Lebanon, directly involved in the Hamas attack on October 7.
The CCP’s list of actions supporting Hamas continues to grow. The Global Times reported on April 26 that during a recent meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the end of last month in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged the US to “not interfere in China’s internal affairs.” This statement raises questions.
An opinion piece by a professor at New York University cited by the Daily Caller News Foundation in Washington DC on April 23 suggests that “China is spreading pro-Hamas sentiments on America and Western campuses” through manipulation of content on the social media application TikTok developed by Chinese company ByteDance. For example, the article notes that for every video supporting Israel on TikTok, there are 52 videos supporting Hamas. This phenomenon is not a coincidence.
The CCP has consistently condemned Israel’s defensive actions against the most serious terrorist attacks since the Holocaust on Jewish people. Perhaps the civilized world should demand that the CCP’s efforts to call for a ceasefire in Gaza (ultimately saving Hamas) instead be redirected to stopping the ongoing cultural genocide in East Turkmenistan (Xinjiang) and Tibet. This is what most civilized societies support as so-called “interference in China’s internal affairs.”
Stu Cvrk, a retired US Navy officer with 30 years of service, holds combat experience in regions like the Middle East and Western Pacific. He graduated from the US Naval Academy in Maryland and has a background in classical liberal education, marine affairs, and systems analysis, which laid the foundation for his subsequent political commentary.
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