Sen. Chuck Schumer used a rare meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing to lecture him about China’s response to the Hamas attack on southern Israel, saying he was “disappointed” with Beijing’s neutrality.
“I urge you and the Chinese people to stand with the Israeli people and condemn the cowardly and vicious attacks upon them,” Schumer told Xi on Monday, according to Bloomberg. “I say this with respect, but I was disappointed by the foreign minister’s statement showing no sympathy or his support for the Israeli people during these tragedies.”
Earlier in the day, Schumer met with China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, and also criticized China’s response to the situation in Israel and Gaza. China’s Foreign Ministry released a statement on Sunday that urged de-escalation and peace talks.
“We call on relevant parties to remain calm, exercise restraint, and immediately end the hostilities to protect civilians and avoid further deterioration of the situation,” the Foreign Ministry said.
On Monday, after Schumer met with Xi, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning offered a stronger condemnation of the killing of civilians. “We’re deeply saddened by the civilian casualties and oppose and condemn acts that harm civilians,” she said.
Schumer took credit for the stronger statement, but it could be applied to both sides as Israel is killing civilians in its airstrikes and siege on Gaza. Mao stressed that China was a friend to both “Israel and Palestine” and urged de-escalation and talks, which Beijing has offered to facilitate.
Schumer’s lecture overshadowed the bipartisan delegation that he led to China, the first congressional trip of its kind since 2019. The trip came as US-China relations are at their lowest point in decades.
Good olde Schumer –Left wing for US policies, but a right wing ethno-nationalist for his tribe.
I guess there are not many evangelical Christians in China to appeal to.
Let me clue you. Chuckie is not left wing,not by my standards.
He’s really not left wing for US policy either. That would require consideration for the working class.
From 2016:
“For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.”
But Schumer pretends on one, and does not even bother with the pretense on the other.
Once words emit from one’s mouth, they cannot be retrieved.
And now you have a first class example of our political problems. People like this Asshole get elected repeatedly by ignorant voters.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, top diplomat, Wang Yi, and Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning are gentle and intelligent people with visions of world peace and democracy for the good of all people and the planet.
Schumer is a typical American ghoul with vile intent.
Ugly American
I agree about Shumer.
Ridiculous. In English laughable.
Schumer works hard and tirelessly for the country he loves and serves… But it isn’t the US.
Yes, … and you could equally well say as much for 99% of Congress and 100% of the Executive. We are simply another colony exploited to benefit the core.
Shumer (D-Israel). Amazing how much representation they have.
sen Schumer is “disappointed” with Beijing’s neutrality ?
wow what happens when the enemy of my enemy is not actually my friend ?
Well, Chuckie, the U.S. has been pretty “neutral” with the oppression Israel has put on the Palestinians for 75 years. Down right supportive.
I think Schumer’s best advice is limited to “how to get your mug in front of a camera with great frequency”. Clearly, he is an expert at this.
Everyone seems compelled to try to shape this dreadful episode. I am so shocked and stunned that I am almost helpless to make any sense of the horror that We see before us. I think that it’s a dreadful error of the Palestinians to have chosen to attack their nuclear armed & vastly stronger tormentors, but know desperate humans do desperate things. It oddly makes me want to look at the Warsaw ghetto situation to understand the pathology of poor choices in such types of seemingly hopeless torment and fear.
Palestinians Speak Israel’s Language
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/10/09/chris-hedges-palestinians-speak-israels-language/
This is worse then Warsaw. At least they had roofs overhead and some food. The Palestinians have nothing but desperation.
Violent monsters create violent monsters.
Israeli forces killed Palestinian child for discovering undercover operation
In a report issued on Wednesday by Defense for Children Palestine (DCIP), the Palestinian sector of Geneva-based Defense for Children International (DCI), Rafat Omar Ahmad Khamayseh left his grandfather’s house in the northern West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp on Tuesday, September 19, when he then “saw Israeli Special Forces exiting three Palestinian licensed cars and surround the home of the father of a Palestinian man wanted for arrest.”
The report stated that “Rafat fled, yelling, ‘Special Forces! Special Forces!’ One Israeli soldier chased Rafat and shot him in the abdomen from a distance of 10 meters”.
The Israeli occupation forces then shot at the boy again, as a Palestinian man came to his aid and “threw himself on top of Rafat and rolled him toward his house, less than five meters away. The man and his family sheltered Rafat for about an hour and a half as the Israeli military prevented ambulances from accessing Jenin refugee camp.”
The boy was reported to have been “struck with one bullet that entered his abdomen and exited from the upper right side of his chest… He bled extensively from his mouth and nose while waiting for an ambulance.” The DCIP stated that “Rafat died before an ambulance transferred him to Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin.”
Khamayseh’s murder is the latest killing of a Palestinian–especially a minor–by Israeli forces this year, with at least 240 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and besieged Gaza Strip having reportedly been killed since the beginning of 2023, including 48 children.
The human rights group acknowledged the killing of Palestinian minors as a common practice by Occupation forces, stating in its report that “Investigations and evidence collected by DCIP regularly suggest that Israeli forces use lethal force against Palestinian children in circumstances that may amount to extrajudicial or willful killings”.
https://mronline.org/2023/09/27/defense-for-children/
This and things just like it have been going on since Israel was created.
Schumer is such an Ahole. Americans are busybodies who poke their Pinocchios into everyone’s business, so it shouldn’t surprise us that our foreign policy follows suit.
The Senator for Israel, Chuck Schumer wasted a rare meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing just to lecture him about Schumer’s one-sided position on Israel.
If this is what Xi can expect from Americans, it is no wonder he won’t meet with them. Biden won’t get his TV show for his campaign if he can’t promise to behave better when they meet.
Xi prefers to meet with intelligent men and women. Chuck and Joe ain’t it.
Not everyone in the World is an Israeli citizen Chuckie…!
Lecturing China. Wow. That is a great way to win friends and influence people. Way to go Chuck. By the way, is the U.S. a close second in your ratings of countries to Israel, or, do we lag a little further behind.
Sorry Chuck, but when it comes to the whims of your donors, Xi don’t give a f***.
This isn’t 1995, when people just swallowed your lies.
Folks think for themselves now, not going to worship your sacred cow.
US goes to China to cultivate issues that interest Israel. What would have happened if any one from US goverment went to China while Israel is found busy in killing someone in the checkpoint,or demolishing houses,or blidfolding and killing amputee or raiding Al Asqa masjid or setting fires to the masjid or to the houses and churches ,and asked China to express condemnation aginst Israel?
That guy would have been thrown out after being investigated for any kind of relation with Palestinian including religious,lingusitic,cultural commonality or possibility of having any remote exposure to the religion culture or language of the Arab at anytime in life .