Israel-China relations
A China expert, a veteran American diplomat, and a retired Israeli general walk into a Zoom to talk about Israel and where it fits into a new cold war.
Much has been made about the Jewish state’s growing ties with China. But those ties are loosening, and if a new cold war is in the offing, Jerusalem won’t be on Beijing’s side.
A series of defense-trade treaties among the world’s leading democracies would help defend all of them, and us, against China.
The historian and foreign-policy expert joins us to talk about strains between friends and how to overcome them.
The number of AI and cybersecurity startups in Israel makes up close to 20 percent of the world’s total, likely eclipsing China and second only to the United States.
Now that China has supplanted global terrorism as the U.S.’s main foreign-policy concern, the Israel-China relationship will have to change.
In some ways, the two countries have never been closer, but in others, and notably with regard to China, they’ve never seemed farther apart.
In a season of mass protests in Hong Kong and a fierce dustup with the NBA, the acclaimed new Chinese-American film is (almost) silent on the costs of engaging with authoritarianism.
Otherwise, Israel will end up making the same mistakes with regard to China that the U.S. did.
Partnering with Beijing can help stabilize the Middle East; partnering with Asian nations threatened by Beijing can help build a counterbalance to Chinese power.
As China hardens and becomes more aggressive, America and other nations are pushing back. Israel should, too.
Doing so would be profoundly dangerous.
After decades of almost no interaction, relations between the two nations grow increasingly warmer and closer. There’s plenty of good news—and, for Israel, plenty of risk.
Relations are robust now, but China’s imperial challenge to the liberal world order carries a warning for the Jewish state.