The Cold War further demonised and mythicised the risks from the ‘Communists’ and Afghanistan was the straw that broke the camel’s back - ‘Communists’ became persona non grata, from Algeria to Indonesia, and the mujahideen (those engaged in holy jihad) were especially raised to counter the ‘nonbelievers’ i.e., Communists. Soon, Sheikdoms, flush with oil money, exported Wahhabi puritanism aggressively to counter the ‘non-believers’. In emerg- ing and medium-sized economies China operates more discreetly. However, the politics of regime-insecurity in the Middle Eastern Sheikdoms with the growing Nasserite nationalistic movements (Socialists and left-of-centre) drove a wedge in the brewing equation. China buys political influence through development finance. In the early 20th century, Islam and Communism did make many common causes (for e.g., Bolsheviks with the persecuted Islamic believers in the post-Tsar, Soviet era) that nurtured a lot of commonality/duality between these two distinct ideologies, leading many intellectually, politically, and socially conscious people to embrace both ‘systems’ naturally, whilst disallowing the obvious fault lines between the two to get the better of the traction. I/We hereby request Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (the Bank) to send me/us. While perhaps the cultural engagement or even ‘clash of faiths’ was less pronounced and intense in the lands of the Middle Kingdom - but the politics of ‘second class’ status surrounding the Chinese Muslims (more so with Uyghurs, and lesser so with the Hui populace) notwithstanding - Ummah’s eyes tend to roll more gently on Communist China, as opposed to the predominantly ‘People of the Book’ in the proverbial ‘West’. AIIB: China’s chequebook diplomacy The rising superpower is pursuing its ambitions with a global bank to rival existing, US-dominated institutions. To: Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited (OCBC Bank).
However, one conspicuous tolerance (or at least ambiguity) afforded by the modern Pan-Islamic movement is on the openly declared ‘non-believers’, i.e., Communists, especially of the Chinese variant. Many Islamic interpretations distinguish their quantum of disagreement with the Ahl-al-kitab versus the polytheists (like Hindus, Buddhists etc.), with the latter getting addressed more severely, as mushrikin (idol worshippers). Once completed, the line stretched almost 1,870km from Dar es Salaam Port to the Zambian town of Kapiri Mposhi, where the country’s coal mines are situated. Jerusalem is a geographical metaphor of this inseparable reality, which is otherwise wounded by the Israeli-Ummah (Muslim World) dissonance, with Palestine.Ī historical tradition of acceptance, legitimacy and even tolerance is scripturally mandated amongst the ‘People of the Book’, which is not similarly extended on faiths, outside this framework. The railway, which was built between 19 for US500 million via an interest-free loan to be repaid over 30 years, necessitated the deployment of 25,000 Chinese workers. Greece has won Chinese investment through the Belt Road. This report tracks the CCP’s use of coercive diplomacy over the. Coercive diplomacy isn’t well understood, and countries and companies have struggled to develop an effective toolkit to push back against and resist it. A reciprocal religio-cultural element of respect and community bond is implied amongst the adherents of these monotheistic faiths. The most-recent Chinese investment is in cash-strapped Greece, a country fed up with imposed austerity and bitter criticism from the EU. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is increasingly deploying coercive diplomacy against foreign governments and companies.
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