Absolutely extraordinary exchange between Israel and China 👇 I've never seen such a heated exchange come out of top-level forum in China (this is from the 12th Beijing Xiangshan Forum that started yesterday), this normally never happens.
The guy speaking is Yan Xuetong, the dean of the Institute of International Relations at Tsinghua University, the most prestigious university in China.
Speaking for Israel is a military officer apparently called Elad Shoshan.
Yan Xuetong truly doesn't hold back:
- When the Israeli officer tries to bullshit him around how Israel supposedly protects civilians in Gaza, he replies: "You killed more than 70,000 civilians!... The fact is not decided by you... It is not decided by your government. Your government has no legitimacy or the right to decide or defend what is fact"
- And when told that the war will end when Hamas release hostages he replies: "No, this kind of propaganda have too many. No one believe it! Too many! Too much! No one believe it, except a few Israelis"
I’m a British Jew in England
I didn’t interpret #DeathToTheIDF as a call for people to kill me because
1. I’m not in the IDF
2. It doesn’t call for the death of individuals - the clue is in “The IDF”
3. I’m not brain dead
@_lg_1972 They had plenty of rides to choose, it took us about 10 mins to get an uber. There were plenty of Hackney carriages around offering back into town for £30, find some people going back the same way and just split it
@_lg_1972 I will say though that they closed the station and closed roads around Heaton Park afterwards, so the expectation was to walk to next tram station at Bowker Vale (20 min walk) so we just got an uber from Bury Old Road back into town for £12
@_lg_1972 Park near Victoria station in town and get the metro up and jump off at the Heaton park tram stop. I parked on a car park on Gould Street for £3, walked 10 mins to Victoria and got the tram up for another £3 last night