China supports Palestine’s membership request to the BRICS

The Palestinian representative in Moscow, Abdel Hafiz Nofal, confirmed that Palestine’s participation in the BRICS group could start with an observer or guest status, while waiting for the conditions to allow complete membership. “We have made a request, but, as you know, Palestine has certain conditions. I believe that she will first participate as guest, “he told the Russian press, adding that no official response has yet been received.

Beijing clearly supported this approach. The spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Guo Jiakun, praised “the arrival of partners sharing the same aspirations”, stressing that the BRICS constitute “an engine of multilateralism and the democratization of international relations”. For China, the entry of Palestine would be in the construction of a fairer world multipolar order.

This initiative occurs while an increasing number of states recognize Palestine: France, Canada, Australia, Portugal and the United Kingdom, among others, announced this week of the UN General Assembly. Israel strongly denounced this movement, Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu claiming that he would not let “a terrorist nation” be “imposed”. The BRICS, which originally brought together Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, were widened in 2024 to Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates, then to Indonesia in 2025. Many countries of the global southern southern demonstrate today for this economic and political block, perceived as an alternative to Western domination.

Beyond diplomatic visibility, a Palestinian participation would offer economic and technical benefits: access to common funding for infrastructure, integration into South-South energy and commercial networks, as well as partnerships in agriculture, health or digital. So many levers likely to strengthen Palestinian economic autonomy and to expand its room for maneuver on the international scene, in a context where the world order is redrawn around the divide between the West and the Sino-Russian axis.