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Chinese Scholars Are (Really) Confident China Can Mediate a Settlement Between Palestinians and Israelis
There is an emerging consensus among prominent Mideast scholars in China that Beijing is now the ideal mediator to help broker a settlement to the seemingly intractable Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Their confidence (which some might see as hubris) is rooted in the ...
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas Arrives in Beijing
Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, arrived in Beijing for a four-day visit that will see meetings with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang. The trip (Abbas’s first visit to Beijing since 2017) is being framed as an attempt to ...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Heads to Beijing to See if China is Serious About Mediating Conflict With Israel
Mideast diplomacy will be back at the top of the agenda in Beijing this week when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas arrives in the Chinese capital on Tuesday for a four-day visit. The Palestinian leader is reportedly going to see if ...
BYD Chairman Discuss Manuacturing, Sales Expansion With Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister
The chairman of the world's largest electric vehicle company, China's BYD, met with Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister Trần Hồng Hà in Hanoi late last week to discuss the company's plans to expand in the Southeast Asian country. BYD announced plans to build ...
Three Chinese Workers in Israel Injured in Palestinian Missile Attack
Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip launched a barrage of 22 missiles on the neighboring Israeli city of Sderot on Tuesday, hitting a construction site where three Chinese workers were injured. One worker was hit by shrapnel and taken to the ...
China’s Offer to Mediate Israel-Palestinian Conflict Lacks Credibility, Say Analysts
This week's offer by Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang to facilitate peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority was quickly dismissed as unrealistic by prominent scholars and analysts who closely follow the issue. Qin spoke separately with the foreign ministers ...
What the Israelis Really Want From China (Hint: It Has Nothing to do With the Palestinians)
There's no indication in the Israeli national security community of a strong desire to call on China to help mediate the country's long-running dispute with the Palestinians. After all, Israel is one of the U.S.'s closest allies and China has been ...
Israel Not Happy About the China-Brokered Iran-Saudi Arabia Deal
Few countries are as directly affected by the Saudi-Iran deal as Israel. The announcement seemed to have caught the Netanyahu government off guard and occasioned intense discussion, with incumbent and opposition politicians blaming each other for appearing “weak” and lessening Israel’s clout in the region. ...
Why the U.S. And Israel Are Not Aligned on China
Israel and China are reportedly in the final stages of negotiating a free trade agreement that both sides say will be done before the end of the year. This may come as a surprise to some given how relations between the ...
WEEK IN REVIEW: Developing Countries in Asia, for the First Time in More Than 30 Years, Will Grow Faster Than China
Developing countries in Asia, for the first time in more than 30 years, will grow faster than China, according to a new report by the Asian Development Bank. The bank forecasts China's annual growth rate this year to be just 3.3% compared to 4.3% for developing countries in ...
China’s Increasingly Close Ties With Syria Are Making Israel Very Nervous
China's outgoing ambassador to Syria, Feng Biao, held what appeared to be a rather friendly meeting with President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday providing yet another indication of the increasingly close ties between the two countries -- a trend that's making observers across the border in Israel increasingly anxious.
Israel is Becoming the Role Model For How the U.S. Wants Its Allies to Deal With China, Says Foreign Policy Expert
Israel is emerging as a role model for how the United States wants its allies around the world to distance themselves from economic and technical engagement with China, according to Ilan Berman, vice president of the American Foreign Policy Institute in a column published on Tuesday in Newsweek. ...