You did not get the point.

Both China and South Africa are both key BRICS members.

Both China and South Africa are regional powers. China is obviously a global superpower.

Colombia is not a global leader, they’re not a regional leader, in fact they’re incredibly insignificant country with an incredibly insignificant economy. If you wanted to argue why would nobody take fucking Colombia’s leadership its because Colombia offers nothing to anyone else.

China however had leverage with both Israel, the US, the EU and every other country in the region.

Coordinated effort from both of them could have been a lynchpin of a global resistance even by liberal standards .All of this was happening during the court cases and the UN meetings, they could have added pressure to this issue by adding the embargo. That was an opportunity that was missed.

However, I can concede your point, then why if Colombia could afford to be so principled and selfless China could not?

Like seriously, do you not understand how incredibly dumb you look by trying to make it look like China couldn’t afford an embargo but backwater impoverished Colombia could? The global #1 economic industrial superpower couldn’t imagine going 5 minutes without some garbage Israeli imports? Or the great CPC master plan includes something so precious that backwater Colombia can`t fucking understand?

Just stop, it is inexcusable and incredibly dumb. Pro-China shit went from “smol bean China will just get nuked” to “hmmm acshualy they shouldn’t do it because it wouldn’t matter anyway”. As I often say stop fucking larping.

I hear you, the problem for me personaly is that I suggested that way back in early last year, during the ICJ/ICC cases and most people here thought it was pretty much smol bean China moment, they actualy thought China couldn`t do anything because Israel would nuke them.

So there is little point repeating this since people already dismissed it back then. I guess sadly it is only now that China has literaly embraced the devil(that photo op with the ambassador) that people are radicalizing against China`s pacifism.

But to be sure, this was already something we all knew China could have done but didn`t.

Here back then I mentioned this Palestinians call for China to step up pressure on Israel as they seek an end to ‘collective punishment’ on Gazans

US politicians’ portrayal of ceasefire demands as being Chinese or Russian-led efforts to destabilise the West may have impeded the bid for Palestinian liberation, pushing it further out of reach. A more involved Global South is the answer, according to Rula Shadeed, co-director of the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy, which advocates for the embattled population. Shadeed said China’s clear support for Palestine would have a “very powerful effect” on the conflict, giving a boost to smaller states that may have been concerned about the consequences of doing the same.

“China has an important role, but it definitely can do much, much, much more,” she said. “The trade relationship between China and Israel has been ongoing, for example. There has not been anything that was stopped, no calls for summoning the Israeli ambassador. There was not even mentions or threats of cutting ties [as Israeli offensives continue].”

But that killing could be stopped with some practical solutions, according to Vijay Prashad, historian and director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. He said permanent members of the Security Council, including China, could bring forward proposals similar to those imposed on Libya during the civil war of 2011.

“To stop the bombing, China can put forward a motion for a no-fly zone over Gaza and have Egypt monitor the flights over the area,” Prashad said. “It can also propose a full arms embargo – not even dual-use technology [goods, software and technology that can be used for both civilian and military applications] should be allowed to be shipped to Israel.”

Prashad said the fact that member states were not offering such motions was “perplexing” and “part of our colonial sensibility” that the UN’s agenda could not be set by non-Western states, who were not traditionally the decision-makers. “There are moments like when the Chinese representative to the UN [Zhang Jun] stopped the Israeli ambassador from talking in a very undignified way – so it’s not like people aren’t asserting themselves, but why not assert themselves with a resolution?”

The replies back then were “China is a smol bean”. The shift we see now is only because the genocide has become far more desperate honestly, its realy sad but people are still doing it.

There were many possible Chinese initiatives, they just picked none of them.