Ofir Dayan

The Collateral Damage to Israel from the U.S.-China Confrontation

Since the October 7 attack, Taiwan has stood by Israel—although Israel, for its part, is limited in its ability to cooperate with an island that is in an ongoing conflict with China. How should Israel act in order to maintain support and cooperation with Taipei, while not harming its relations with Beijing?

How does China work to influence Israeli public opinion – and what can be done about it?

Between admiration and hostility, between tension and cooperation: The anticipated relations between the incoming Trump administration and the Chinese power

What is the secret to the appeal of BRICS, led by China and Russia, and what does its strengthening mean for Israel?

Relations between China and the United States during the four years of the Joe Biden administration were characterized by constant efforts to prevent escalation and by American adoption of the “Chinese approach,” which maintains that discussion of contentious issues should be minimized, while instead focusing on areas where cooperation is possible. These efforts succeeded in preventing significant crises in relations, the biggest of which was the visit of Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, and the shooting down of the Chinese espionage balloon in US airspace, from escalating to direct super-power or regional clashes. Moreover, these crises drove the emergence of a mechanism of strategic coordination and a series of high-level meetings. This paper analyzes the issues that comprised the core of relations during these four years and examines how, despite growing tensions in each case, the superpowers managed to avoid confrontations that would undoubtedly have had huge impacts on the entire world.