Eager to support the Uighurs

The editorial “Israel must stay out of US-China struggle” (June 26) raises poignant points. How could Israel, a country that has risen out of the ashes of the Holocaust, put its economic and technological alliance with China ahead of humanitarian concerns?

The rise of China as a global geopolitical power has eclipsed its human rights transgressions of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. What is particularly appalling is that most Arab and Muslim majority countries are more interested in the exchange of resources, expertise, investments and energies to buttress their strategic relationship with China, than in speaking out against the ongoing predicament of their Muslim brethren.

Also, in its geopolitical rivalry with the USA, China’s Belt and Road Initiative has strengthened the connectivity of Asian, European and African continents, adjacent seas and fostered new norms of international economic cooperation.

Sadly, economic interests are worth more than human rights.

DR MUNJED FARID AL QUTOB London, UK