The issue isn’t if China can do more for Palestine

The question is will China stop actively enabling Israel’s genocide and occupation.

China is the top exporter to Israel - at 17% way ahead of the US at 11%. What does it export? Chinese state-owned giant corporations build and run infrastructure - highways, power plants, ports - all over Israel and in occupation settlements in the West Bank. These include projects with strategic military importance like the Haifa Port. In India, we target Adani for its stake in Haifa but not China.

Worst of all, Chinese AI tech companies guide drones to evict Gazans, and provide surveillance, facial recognition and data collection in the West Bank - Israel buys this because it’s impressed by China’s success in using such tech in Xinjiang against Uyghurs.

Why doesn’t BDS focus on China as a target?

If China wanted it could, by ending its own complicity, bring Israel to a grinding halt in one stroke to force an end to the genocide. But it won’t.

China’s ambassador to Israel has written two op Ed in the past few months - 2025 - arguing that China and Israel partnership is ‘good for civilisation’ since both nations are based on ancient civilisations.

Sources:

At my urging, this website added some of the Chinese companies to the list of complicit companies
https://corporategenocide.org

Chinese drones in Gaza https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2025/5/8/israel-retrofitting-dji-commercial-drones-to-bomb-and-surveil-gaza

An article on Chinese AI tech uses to surveil and control Palestinians in the West Bank
https://newpol.org/issue_post/between-chinese-surveillance-and-israeli-settler-colonialism/

China’s ambassador to Israel op Ed https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-849040
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Kavita Krishnan