Communications

On November 29, Beijing appointed Xiao Junzheng as its new ambassador to Israel, signaling an effort to repair relations strained by its contentious response to the October 7, 2023, attacks. After three decades of fostering ties with Israel, China remains eager to access Israeli innovation and markets while projecting itself as an objective “friend to all” and a “responsible...

On Jan. 20, 2025, President-elect Donald Trump will be inaugurated amidst a great-power competition shaping US foreign policy. Trump recently announced his cabinet nominees, including figures known for their hawkish stances on China and others with significant commercial ties to the nation. This duality mirrors Trump's own ambivalence – on one hand, his campaign to "make China...

Calin Georgescu was not a household name in Romania and elsewhere until the current election cycle. Even as a candidate, he was not a promising one as polls conducted on the eve of the elections predicted he would gain 5% of the votes, a result that would have left him far behind his other opponents. In reality, however, Georgescu did not only win approximately 22.9% of the...

As early as 2021, at the beginning of his term, US President Joe Biden declared in his administration’s National Security Strategy that the world is currently engaged in a “strategic competition to shape the global order.” Due to the rising tension between the two superpowers, the US and China, there was deemed to be a need to establish a de-escalation mechanism that would...

Ofir Dayan, a research associate in the Israel-China Policy Center at the Institute for National Security Studies, explained that there are large gaps between the approach to TikTok in Israel and the approach adopted by European countries and North America. In the United States, legislation is being promoted demanding that the owner of TikTok, the Chinese company ByteDance,...

Tuvia Gering, a researcher at the China Policy Center at the Israel Institute for National Security Studies, clarified: “I don’t think the way China controls Tik Toks to tell it what to do. But this is a Chinese company that understands the commander’s mentality. So if the CCP stands on the side of Palestine, of course it will not aid or help the other party that is opposed to...

“It’s not only that China and Israel have very vast trade relations in recent years. China and Israel really have grown closer together,” Ofir Dayan, a research assistant at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies’ Israel-China Policy Center, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “China is our ally. When you see someone as an ally, this statement is extremely...

“It’s supposedly an energy company, but it has subcompanies who do influence operations. They have a center dedicated to unification of China and Taiwan, which is understandably very unusual,” says Ofir Dayan, a research assistant in the Israel-China Policy Center at INSS.