Podcasts

United States administrations and US allies, including Israel, face structural and resource challenges in protecting the security and integrity of research and innovation in the face of China’s all-of-country efforts to “introduce, digest, absorb, and re-innovate” their achievements for modernizing their military. These efforts also seek to realize Beijing’s ambition to make China the dominant global actor across all high-end and strategic technologies by mid-century. Institutions in the academic and private sectors are ill-equipped to identify, assess, and mitigate risks to research and innovation. Tuvia Gering is joined by Dr. Glenn Tiffert, co-chair of the Hoover Institute’s China’s Global Sharp Power initiative, and Jeff Stoff, director of the Center for Research Security and Integrity (CRSI), to discuss their extensive work on how institutions can protect research security and integrity while maintaining a healthy relationship with China.

Former Chinese Senior Military Colonel and China Forum expert at Tsinghua University Zhou Bo sat with the INSS’ Tuvia Gering to talk about China’s “new security architecture for the Middle East.” What does it imply for America’s current security framework in the region? Most importantly, what will China do if Iran acquires a nuclear weapon or is attacked by an Israeli-US-Gulf coalition; will Beijing support their efforts to prevent proliferation, or is the Sino-US rivalry so intense that China is willing to support Iran in its hostility toward the West, the same way it supports Russia in its war of aggression in Ukraine?

Indeed, the weather is summery in Israel, but the winds of changes are trying to influence China’s presence in the Middle East – will they succeed? China, which is examining the stability of the world order and its place in it, is keeping its eyes open and watching what is happening in the West, as the war in Ukraine continues. Thus, we convened the best experts to answer how does the crisis in Europe influences China’s relations with the Middle East, especially Israel–China relations. Watch the answers of Dr. Jonathan Fulton, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and a lecturer at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, and Dr. She Gangzheng, a professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, at the INSS conference

Ambassador Daniel Shapiro, Ambassador Dr. Oded Eran, and Brig. Gen. (res.) Assaf Orion discuss the relationship between the United States, Israel, and China, and the course Israel needs to navigate as the competitive atmosphere between the United States and China increases. Why is this rivalry intensifying in aspects of trade, technology, infrastructure, geo-politics, ideology, governance, and human rights? Who will influence the norms and rules of future technologies? What are the main national security and policy goals of Israel vis-à-vis China, and what are Israel’s stakes in this strategic game? The three INSS senior researchers ponder together – what would a similar conversation sound like in 2069, 50 years from today?