With the “future of humanity” at stake, a Senate delegation to China urged the communist nation’s president to do more for Israel.
A planned trip through Asia to meet with Chinese, South Korean and Japanese business and government leaders found Senate Leader Chuck Schumer (D) at odds with Chinese President Xi Jinping over the “goal of advancing U.S. economic and national security interests.” In particular, as the rare meeting took place Monday, two days after Hamas initiated a heinous attack on Israel, the New York Senator voiced disappointment over the lack of “sympathy and support.”
Joined by a bipartisan delegation comprised of Democratic Sens. Maggie Hassan (N.H.) and Jon Ossoff (Ga.), along with Republican Sens. Mike Crapo (Idaho), Bill Cassidy (La.) and John Kennedy (La.), Schumer had reacted to a lacking statement issued by the Chinese Communist Party government.
“I was very disappointed to be honest by the Foreign Ministry statement that showed no sympathy or support for Israel during these troubled times,” he said during remarks to Xi. “I urge you and the Chinese people to stand with the Israeli people and condemn these cowardly and vicious attacks.”
In their own statement following the meeting with the CCP leader, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying took to X to tout, “President Xi Jinping met with the bipartisan delegation of the U.S. Senate led by Majority Leader Charles Schumer. The China-U.S. relationship is the most important bilateral relationship in the world. How China and the U.S. get along will determine the future of humanity.”
“As two major countries,” the spokesperson continued, “China and the U.S. should demonstrate the broadmindedness, vision and readiness to rise to the occasion expected by the international community and act with a sense of responsibility to history, to the people and to the world.”
As two major countries, China and the U.S. should demonstrate the broadmindedness, vision and readiness to rise to the occasion expected by the international community and act with a sense of responsibility to history, to the people and to the world. pic.twitter.com/yIa8CdrcmC
— Hua Chunying 华春莹 (@SpokespersonCHN) October 9, 2023
Along with increasingly cozy relationships with Middle Eastern nations including Iran, Saudi Arabia and Syria, in 2022 China had allegedly threatened to “downgrade relations with the State of Israel” after the Jerusalem Post had run a story on growing concerns from Taiwan about a similar threat from China as Ukraine had from Russia.
With updated reports from Israel indicating that the death toll had risen to around 800 after the terrorist attacks from Hamas, China had downplayed the violence, likened by scale to nearly ten times that of September 11th, by referring to it as a “recurrence of the conflict.”
In an official statement, China called for a push for the two-state solution as they argued, “The recurrence of the conflict shows once again that the protracted standstill of the peace process cannot go on.”
Meanwhile, Schumer, the first Jewish leader of the Senate, had done nothing but condemn the actions of Hamas along with those who had shown their support for the side of the terrorists at demonstrations on the streets of New York City.
“I can’t think of anything more ill-timed and cold-hearted than today’s demonstrations in Times Square. We’ve seen unprecedented viciousness coming from Hamas aimed at innocent families and children,” the senator wrote on X. “Everyone–no matter your views–should condemn this brutal act.”
I can’t think of anything more ill-timed and cold-hearted than today’s demonstration in Times Square.
We’ve seen unprecedented viciousness coming from Hamas aimed at innocent families and children.
Everyone—no matter your views—should condemn this brutal act.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) October 9, 2023
During the meeting, as the delegation aimed to arrange a meeting between President Joe Biden and Xi at a November summit in San Francisco, Schumer also called on China to “provide a level playing field for American companies and workers.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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