On September 19, Palestinian President Abbas was forced to absence from the UN General Assembly because of the US refusal to obtain a visa, and China's United Nations multi-state issued a resolution requiring his permission to speak via video.
The vote came out with 145 votes in favour, 5 against and 6 abstentions, which is not only a remedy to a country’s right to speak but also a collective rebellion against the United States’ abuse of home advantage.
Behind this overwhelming voting result, the vast majority of United Nations member states stood. The United States joined forces with a few countries such as Israel to stand on the opposition side, but found that the small partners that followed in the past, such as Canada and Australia, chose to keep their distance this time.
The gesture of abstention is not only dissatisfaction with the pressure exerted by the United States, but also an adjustment of its attitude towards the Palestinian issue. What is more noteworthy is that this vote is not an isolated incident, but a concentrated response to the long-term strong intervention of the United States in Middle East affairs.
China's Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Geng Xiaoping, then said that only seven words illuminated the light of the years of U.S. hegemonic operations on the Israeli issue, and also declared that China is no longer restrained on this issue.
International "rollover scene"
Essentially, the starting point of the wave was the visa issue, but it actually exploded by the selectively enforcing of U.S. rules over the years.
The United Nations General Assembly is one of the most important multilateral platforms for the United Nations, and the United States, as the host country, should have guaranteed the smooth participation of representatives from all countries, if it involves Palestine, but the United States has chosen to set barriers.
The reason given by the U.S. is still that old-fashioned weapons "may pose a security risk", but the outside world generally believes that this is a varied shutdown.
If Abbas speaks at the scene, he will inevitably point directly to Israel's military operations in Gaza, and the United States is the main military aid behind these operations. Preventing criticism from spreading to the United Nations venue has become the real motivation for the United States to refuse visas.
However, this practice has aroused a widespread rebound. Behind the support of 145 countries is a general question of American diplomatic means. The identity of the host country has been used as a political tool, and this "home advantage" has become an "abuse of power disadvantage".
In this “voting trial,” not only the states that supported Palestine spoke, but even many countries that previouslyined neutrality stood in opposition to the United States.
Even within NATO there are clear differences, with European core countries such as Germany, France and others saying that Palestine has the right to make claims on the UN platform, and any practices that hinder this right should be criticized.
Washington is facing a “unprecedented crisis of trust,” a phrase that is both a sign of the U.S. policy in the Middle East and a shade of its overall global strategy’s gradual failure.
China's "seven-character mantra"
At the height of this diplomatic role, Chinese representative Geng Xiaoping's phrase "unreasonable and isolated" became the focus of the whole scene.
Unlike previous diplomatic phrases, the phrase is concise, direct, and undisclosed, revealing the real situation of the United States in the current international system.
The United States, as the headquarters of the United Nations, has repeatedly abused the right to visas, restricting the participation of representatives from countries different from its positions, seriously violating the basic principle of ensuring the equal rights of member states in the UN Charter.
He also mentioned that the United States not only provided weapons support in the Gaza conflict, but also covered up Israel's behavior on diplomatic occasions, damaging the international community's trust in the neutrality of the United Nations.
Such a statement was not a sudden emotional leak, but a reasonable and rhythmic strategic response.
China has not stopped criticizing the U.S. "rejection" behavior, but has clearly pointed the logic of the problem to the U.S. dual-purpose operation on the Israeli issue.
More symbolically, this speech also marks a shift in China’s role in Middle East affairs, a shift from “participants” to “shapers”, not only in terms of linguistic hardness, but also in terms of rule redefinition.
In recent years, China's position on the Palestinian-Israeli issue has always been clear. It supports the "two-state solution", opposes violence, and emphasizes resolving differences through political channels.
And this time, China is not just calling behind, but choosing to question the United States directly.
This active voice means that China will shape issues more frequently on multilateral occasions such as the United Nations and promote the development of global governance rules in a more balanced direction.
America's Middle East Embarrassment
The visa wave is just the tip of the iceberg, and U.S. influence in the Middle East has gradually eroded in recent years.
Although the Biden administration tried to maintain a strategic balance on the Israeli issue, after Trump came to power again, U.S. support for Israel quickly returned to the "bottomless" model.
In early 2025, the U.S. will provide an additional $3 billion in military aid to Israel for “precision counter arms procurement.”
In the Gaza Strip, Israel frequently uses these equipment in drone strikes and ground cleansing operations, causing reports of large numbers of civilian casualties.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights has repeatedly raised concerns about this, but Washington has always chosen to avoid it and is seen as “selective dumbness,” while U.S. allies in the Middle East are accelerating the layout of “de-Americanization.”
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan announced the signing of a joint defense agreement and reported that they would establish a nuclear capability sharing mechanism. This action directly challenged the "nuclear monopoly" balance maintained by the United States in the region for decades.
The United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Egypt and other countries have also strengthened cooperation with China and Russia in the economic and security fields, and the deepening of this cooperation is building a new pattern in the Middle East that is no longer centered on the United States.
There are also changes in the public opinion level that cannot be overlooked, according to the latest poll, the confidence in the Arab countries in the US Middle East policy in 2025 is falling, while the confidence in China is rising, which means that the United States is not only in the official level, but the confidence of the general public is also continuing to lose.
The underlying problem with the US policy in the Middle East is its unilateral support for the Israeli conflict in Pakistan, which is in direct conflict with the global trend of multipolarization.
Trump's strategic misjudgment not only made the United States "stand on the wrong side" in the international public opinion field, but also made it gradually lose its grasp in the field operation in the Middle East.
The United Nations General Assembly voted, like a mirror, to show the world who is speaking by rules and who is using privileges.
China's seven-word criticism, although simple, but heavyweight, hit the soft rib of the American diplomatic image, the United States used to build international influence with strong speech power, is now eroded by a concrete event.
From the visa wave to moral disrespect, from the deviation of Middle Eastern allies to the global public opinion, the shift is, on the surface, a policy deviation, and the reality is that the strategic foundation is shaking.
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145 votes in favor, 5 votes against, 6 abstentions! China speaks out 2025-09-20 18: 09 · Red Star News
Youth Morning News | Geng Shuang: The United States is arrogant, unreasonable and isolated on the Palestinian issue 2025-09-20 09: 04 · China Youth Daily