Time for Israel to rethink its China Policy

In spite of current global financial-economic-commercial crisis, China is likely to continue its success story in the coming decades. Jerusalem should therefore reconsider its relations with Beijing. It perhaps even needs to welcome greater Chinese involvement in various diplomatic and security issues relating to the Middle East. This is certainly so if, as Immanuel Wallerstein and many historians and political scientists have recently argues, the United States is in a geopolitical decline economically, politically, and even military.

Aran Shai, 01 March 2010