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Yeah but trading with a country is different from using it as a geostrategic asset. The Anglosphere has used Israel as a wedge in the Middle East to ensure that it can not be stable, which they figure would be a catastrophe. (A stable Middle East would control a huge portion of the world's trade, plus a huge portion of vital resources.)
It's possible that China will just inherit this strategy from the United States if it becomes the preeminent superpower, just like the United States inherited it from Great Britain. But it's possible that the Chinese will think differently, plus two things will be geopolitically different in the coming decades: the Arctic sea is opening up and oil is becoming much less important than it has been.
China has always been pursing its own policy also in the Middle East. A major point here is exactly to use Israel as a'geostrategic asset' if you want to put it that way. The Chinese government prefers to deal with and supports autocratic regimes, negates the rule of law, as it can then better undermine the country.
In Israel, the Chinese Communist Party has been supporting exactly for what its propaganda is accusing the only the West: the genocide in the West Bank and in Gaza. It's a dehumanizing and disturbing symbiosis that a Chinese firm linked to repression of Uyghurs aids Israeli surveillance in West Bank,
Here is the original report by Amnesty.
This is only one example. There are more similar reports regarding Chinese surveillance tech and other products and services sold to autocratic regimes worldwide to enhance 'business ties' ...