It is Shuncheng Jie, the Muslim quarter and one of very few old streets left in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan in the far south-west.

BBC: China's changing face

And they point to the buying by militant Jewish groups, encouraged by the government, of houses in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, as well as in other Palestinian areas.

ECONOMIST: Tampering with Jerusalem

He refuses to make do with Palestinian sovereignty over the Muslim holy sites and the adjacent Muslim Quarter of the walled Old City, and demands that the 200, 000-odd Palestinian citizens beyond the walls live on their own sovereign soil.

ECONOMIST: The distance between them