Israeli officials: I hope that the relationship between China can flourish again

"Israeli Times" August 3rd article, original topic: After many years of trade prosperity, some people believe that one thing that is happening to the downhill road with China relations shows that the relationship between Jerusalem and Beijing has changed. The Israeli-China Policy Center Director Olan said at the establishment ceremony of the center held at the center of Tel Aviv: "A series of indicators show that relations between the two countries are in a new period."

In January of this year, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs praised the $ 18 billion trade relations between the two countries on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations with China. However, according to Orren's data, China ’s investment in Israel and Israel’ s exports to China were on the top in 2018. Since then, both data have declined. In the past six years, the number of companies exported to China by Israel has decreased by 15%.

This timetable is continuously increasing with the pressure on Israel. First, the Trump administration, then the White House led by Biden, asked Israel to monitor trade relations more closely, especially large transactions involving possible sensitive transactions. In 2019, Israeli Security Cabinet announced the establishment of a foreign investment consulting committee. Earlier, in order to balance the relationship with Washington and Beijing, Israel has delayed this issue for several years. Although the committee has no say in the infrastructure projects under construction, it has successfully prevented the ongoing transactions and promoted the cooling of China trade relations.

Chinese Ambassador to Israel, Cai Run, said at the establishment ceremony that the economic relations between the two countries were still firm, and the bilateral trade volume increased from US $ 50 million in 1992 to US $ 22.8 billion in 2021. He said: "China has become the first largest trading partner in Israel and the world's second largest trading partner. Before the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, Traviv and five cities in China opened a direct flight."

A survey released by the Pedu Research Center in June this year shows that 48%of Israeli interviewees have a positive view of China and higher than other Western countries under investigation. Globally, the Israelites do not care about China's human rights issues or Beijing's growing military strength. However, Olun pointed out that in other years, his favorability of China was even higher. Data from Petoy Research Center show that 66%of the respondents in 2019 have a positive view of China.

Although Olun's prediction is not optimistic, the Israeli Intelligence Minister Elazal Stane still hopes to develop again with China -China relations. "We hope that Olun's assessment of the downward trend of the relationship between the two countries is wrong. Of course, as a researcher, Olen cannot ignore the data -based trend, so we regard it as a challenge to change the status quo and will two be two, and we will be two, and we will be two, and we will two and two will be two. State relations bring back the original level. "

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