“The ethnic-studies movement,” writes Jonathan Marks, “brings together left-wing ‘scholar-activists’ seeking to advance left-wing causes.” Recently, the California State University (CSU) system mandated that each of it 500,000 of its students take at least one ethnic-studies course. Marks comments:

In the past few decades, the Jewish state has vastly expanded its diplomatic, economic, and sometimes military ties with South and East Asia, while doing its best to stay away from the conflicts that divide the countries in the region. Daniel Samet surveys the potential for these relationships, urging Jerusalem to avoid deepening cooperation with China and instead to focus on cultivating further its alliances-in-the-making with China’s competitors: