All Arab countries took part in that conference. China did not agree with a reference in the communiqué on East Jerusalem as the capital of the future Palestinian state.
All countries in the world, including the US and European states, have agreed on this point. China is the only country in the world that adopts the Israeli stand that Jerusalem is “the unified and eternal capital of Israel”.
Another aspect of the Israeli-Chinese cooperation which has been dealt with in the American media recently is Beijing’s involvement in the Zionist project to take control of water sources of Nile by participating in the construction of a large number of dams in Nile basin countries in order to prevent the free flow of water from the river to Egypt and Sudan.
Abu Razizah said quoting media reports that China was cooperating with Israel to set up these dams. Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper confirmed his comment. Egypt is currently trying to use its diplomatic influence to pressure Western financial institutions to deny loans for the construction of huge irrigation projects to be carried out by Nile basin countries.
At the same time, Cairo has little influence on China, which finances a huge hydroelectric project in Ethiopia.
According to Ashok Swain, an international expert on water crisis and professor at Uppsala University in Sweden, things have become complicated for Egypt since the Chinese intervention. China’s financing of projects in Nile basin countries will give them confidence.
“The emergence of China as a powerful alternative lender facilitates possible unilateral actions by Ethiopia. This certainly doubles Egyptian worries about its future water supplies from the Nile,” Swain says.
The Arab world has ignored the Nile basin countries of Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and the Republic of Congo for several years. The result has been the African rejection of previous agreements to share Nile waters. The basin countries signed a new agreement last month, which has been disapproved by Egypt and Sudan as the new accord denies both countries a large part of their historic share in Nile waters.
It seems the Arab and Islamic world has lost China, despite their international stature. None of these countries have given China $400 million in preferential loans as did Israel.
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