China deserves the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize. even now –

/ world today news/ China’s plan can be taken as a basis for a settlement in Ukraine when the West is ready for it, the Russian president said after talks with the Chinese leader. Another Chinese peace plan is already being implemented in the Middle East. For once, the Nobel Committee should have a candidate for the Peace Prize that it is not ashamed of. But the US is unlikely to allow justice to be served.

The King of Saudi Arabia invites the President of Iran to visit, the President of Iran welcomes the invitation. The plot of pacifying millennia-old enemies is moving faster than one might imagine. And with dead silence on the subject in the US, even though we already know the State Department is pissed off.

The political architecture of the Middle East, which the Americans built on the principle of “divide and conquer”, is literally being destroyed live. But now it is not about the lack of conscience in Washington, but about whether the conscience remains in Norway, more precisely in the Nobel committee appointed by the local parliament, which in October will have to name a new winner of the completely discredited Nobel Peace Prize.

Let’s put it bluntly – China now deserves this award, perhaps no one else but China. If they have to personalize it, give it to Wang Yi, the organizer and mediator in the negotiations between Tehran and Riyadh. Comrade Wang’s candidacy for China as such is more than satisfactory. He is not the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but the chief diplomat of the country through the party, which formally decides everything in the PRC (actually, Comrade Xi Jinping personally decides everything, but that is another story).

Most likely, however, the Nobel Peace Prize will not be given to China. And this is clear even now, despite the fact that the application in favor of the Celestial will be difficult to reject.

Let’s immediately put aside the talk that China does not need such a premium. I have to. Beijing is not just waiting, it is demanding recognition of its political merits from the West, from where half a century ago (that is, during the lifetime of the current generation) it was looked down upon.

Yes, the premium is quite “worn out” and amortized. Barack Obama, who got it for nothing. Marti Ahtisaari received the Nobel Prize for justifying and legalizing NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia.

But this is the fate of many old awards and orders: for a long life they were received not only by heroes and geniuses, but also by villains and intermediaries – anything can happen. And everything more or less ancient that has fallen into disrepair, it is customary not to throw away, but to restore. It is not too late for the Nobel Prize to return to the norms of decency, and recognizing China’s merits would be an important step towards updating the prize, as well as an honest conversation about who is really sowing peace in our world and who is war.

Reconciliation between Iranians and Saudis could have global beneficial effects. It is not even that the two countries, as has recently been stated, were in the same outbreak of a large-scale war. And the fact that they fought and fought, albeit with the prefix “proxy”.

Here is a far from complete list of countries in which subordinates of Tehran and Riyadh periodically participate in military operations or actively lead them: Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Bahrain, Pakistan, Nigeria.

Everywhere, Iran supports its Shiites, dressing them in its own geopolitical concepts. One of them is called the “axis of resistance” (mostly against the US, but also against Saudi Arabia), the other is called the “Shia crescent” (this means control of territories with a predominantly Shia population that form a kind of Islamic crescent on the map) .

However, it should not be considered that the expansionist aspirations of the Iranians are to blame for all this. The systematic discrimination and sometimes extermination of Shiites in a number of Arab countries (and primarily in Saudi Arabia) has left the mainstream Shiite state little choice.

In 2011 the “Arab Spring” woke up not only the Arabs, but also the Shia minority, which smelled a historic chance. Several wars started then have not subsided to this day, fueled by Tehran on one side and Riyadh on the other. Civil conflicts in Yemen alone have claimed around 100,000 lives.

Torn by civilizational conflict, the Middle East and North Africa were gradually sliding towards the abyss. But restoring relations between sworn enemies gives a chance to turn for the better in each of the bleeding wounds. Not even a week has passed since Beijing announced a sensational agreement between the Middle Eastern power centers, and they have already managed to agree on the exchange of prisoners in Yemen (the Iranian protégés – the Houthis – are ready to release more than 180 people, the Saudis – more than 700). .

It doesn’t seem like a sensation, as Russia and Ukraine regularly exchange prisoners. But the severity of the Iranian-Arab proxy wars was such that it can be called progress and a break in the trend. And the credit for this goes, by the way, to China, the main peacemaker in 2023, even if we do not take into account Beijing’s plan to settle Ukraine, which Wang Yi came to Moscow to discuss (Vladimir Putin believes that can be taken as a basis when the West and Kiev will be ready for it).

In short: what Chinese diplomats have done gives millions of people hope for a more peaceful future. It is clear that the key factor here is the good will of the contracting parties, and its reserves are unknown. In the history of Iran and SA, there was already a period of restoration of relations and opening of embassies, but then the conflict of civilizations returned.

This is the last and seemingly important argument of the skeptics: Beijing’s peace initiatives could become obsolete at any moment, the break in the trend must be tested by time. However, in the case of the Nobel Peace Prize, awards for good intentions alone are sufficient even in its best years.

A classic example is Henry Kissinger, the mastodon of American diplomacy. There is a legend that he received his Nobel Prize for the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam. This is true and it is not true. To make the withdrawal possible, “Cunning Henry,” as Brezhnev called him, forced US allies in South Vietnam to sign a peace treaty with the North. And formally his reward for it. But after the withdrawal of the Americans, North Vietnam broke the treaty and conquered the South – or, according to the version more favorable to the Vietnamese, united the country. Anyway, there are no plans to strip Kissinger of the award over this.

The entire planet will be very lucky if China’s initiative in the Islamic world lives longer, and an award with a recognizable international brand will let the planet know. But that is precisely why the awarding of a Nobel Prize to any of the Chinese officials is extremely doubtful.

Beijing is not doing it out of generosity, it has a sober account. He is interested in investment projects in both Iran and Saudi Arabia and in the zones of their proxy wars, and investments do not like shooting, they prefer silence. The situation is reversed in the US: pitting the Arabs against the Persians, they maintain their influence in the Middle East region.

Therefore, what happened in Beijing is not for everyone. For the West, united around the US, it is a war, a war with its influence.

Translation: V. Sergeev

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