China erased Israel’s name from the maps of the Middle East

The attitude of its big companies has raised questions Chinasuch as Baidu and Alibaba, because they do not display his name Israel to the maps of the Middle East, but anonymously show its borders.

Based on Daily Mailthe maps normally show the borders of the Jewish state, but there is no name, which many netizens have spotted and reported with posts on the X platform.

THE Jonathan Chengthe Wall Street Journal’s China bureau chief, wrote in a post: “Chinese netizens have expressed bewilderment that the name ‘Israel’ does not appear on digital maps from Baidu and Alibaba, an ambiguity that matches the vague diplomacy of Peking and contrasts with his general attention to maps’.

If China felt it was dangerous and problematic to allow anti-Semitic comments to flourish, censors would stop it. Clearly, the government is conveying the message that it is tolerated,” she said Carice Wittethe executive director of the SIGNAL Group, an Israeli think tank focused on China.

Russia and China on Wednesday vetoed a United Nations push for Security Council action on the Israel-Hamas conflict, calling for a pause in the fighting to allow access to humanitarian aid, the protection of civilians and an end to arms embargoes. of Hamas and other militants in the Gaza Strip.

China vetoed the resolution because it wanted to call for a ceasefire – something the United States refused to do.

“The draft does not reflect the world’s strongest calls for a ceasefire, an end to fighting and does not help resolve the issue,” China’s UN ambassador Zhang Jun told the council after the vote.


Source: News Beast

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