READING THE PRESS IN China, one would never know that the Communist state has diplomatic relations with Israel. A sampling of the coverage from China’s tightly-controlled newspapers on Israel’s recent war against Hezbollah can lead to only one conclusion: Beijing is no friend of the Jewish state.
From day one, Beijing questioned Israel’s claim of self-defense and branded Israel’s action as “aggression.” The chief reporter of the Shanghai Wenhui Daily said that the two Israeli soldiers were, in fact, captured by Hezbollah inside of Lebanon. It implied that the soldiers shouldn’t have been there in the first place, and that Hezbollah couldn’t be blamed for snatching them.
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