The Chinese Minister Wang Yi’s reply to reporters immediately after the Saudi Arabia & Iran rapprochement announcement was a good indication of how China managed to do it. Wang Yi said: “The decisions about Middle East should be left to the people of the Middle East.” China does not impose its will on others unlike USA, nor take sides. China listens to both sides and then make suggestions that are acceptable to both sides, while respecting their decisions. USA always rig everything to turn it into benefiting USA’s elite interests instead, and when others disagree, threatens them. That is coercion, not diplomacy…
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