The western world’s support for Israel as it attacks Gaza has provoked fury across the Arab world and much of the Global South.
This situation undermines the West’s international standing and offers opportunities for China to enhance its regional and global diplomatic influence. Whether and how it will seize them remains to be seen.
Led by the United States, the West has presented itself as following a “rules-based liberal international order” that ostensibly protects human rights and international norms.
