A new height of China-Israel ties (Netanyahu Abbas)

China.org.cn ^ | Xinhua, May 6, 2013

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The upcoming visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to China is expected to further promote mutual political trust and cooperation in the fields of economy, trade and science.

Netanyahu is due to leave for China Sunday night for a five-day official visit, the first of its kind since 2007 when then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert visited China.

Chinese Ambassador to Israel Gao Yanping told Xinhua in an interview that China and Israel have maintained close high-level contact in recent years, creating a good atmosphere for the growth of bilateral ties.

Recent years have also witnessed increasingly closer exchanges in various fields between the two countries, with bilateral communications and coordination continuously strengthened on security, economy, finance and efforts to deal with regional issues and global challenges, she added.

During his stay in China, Netanyahu will visit Shanghai and Beijing and meet with many Chinese entrepreneurs. The two sides are expected to sign a series of inter-governmental cooperation documents and commercial agreements on economy and trade, science and technology, and people-to-people exchanges.

China and Israel have made considerable progress in developing bilateral relations since the establishment of diplomatic ties in 1992, with bilateral trade surging to nearly 10 billion U.S. dollars from 50 million dollars recorded in 1992.

China has become Israel's largest trading partner in Asia and the third largest in the world. China is also a vital destination for Israel's investments abroad in the fields of high-tech, new energy, water technology, environmental protection, agriculture and life sciences, and pharmacy, according to the Chinese envoy.

Israel is the first country to establish RMB venture capital funds in China, which have been invested in a wide range of fields, including China's agriculture and electronics industries.

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The Israeli government has pledged China a total of 1.3 billion dollars in preferential loans, and more than 200 projects, mostly high-tech, in 29 provinces of China have received Israeli funds.

Netanyahu is flying commercial due to the plans to purchase an "Airforce One" type aircraft have been put on hold due to Israel's economic woes.

Israel–United States relations

"Late Republican Senator Jesse Helms used to call Israel "America's aircraft carrier in the Middle East", when explaining why the United States viewed Israel as such a strategic ally, saying that the military foothold in the region offered by the Jewish State alone justified the military aid that the United States grants Israel every year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_%E2%80%93_United_States_relations

China criticises Israel's Syria raid as Netanyahu visits
06 May 2013 5:29 PM

"It is the first visit by an Israeli prime minister since 2007, and overlaps with a three-day trip by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to Beijing, where he met Xi and other officials on Monday."
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/china-criticises-israel-s-syria-raid-as-/665068.html

"Safety and security of proposed natural gas projects have become a prime topic in Israel after the nation struck reserves worth $240 billion."

Sell it to the West, or the East?

[Jack Hammer]

Obama’s wrong-headed and benighted Middle East policy, which has lead to the utter destabilization of the Middle East and the president’s kowtow to myriad Moslem nations who will never do anything for us and will eternally hate and despise us has lead to our loss of international credibility and the shifting of Israeli interest to our avowed enemies.

Yet another Obama dumb-f*ck international relations miscue.

But, hey, America’s shiftless Left wing masses love him, with their hands out ready to watch him destroy the United States so that he can hand them a check at taxpayer expense.

And once the Mexican illegals have been granted citizenship, Obama’s follower in 2016 will be cut from exactly the same cloth.

[Da Coyote]

Makes sense.

The Chinese leaders are 1) more reliable and 2) more capitalistic than our smarmy, sleazy, contemptible pieces of human excrement currently drawing flies to the DC area.

Obama is slime.

The West Wing is slime.

Always remember to flush twice...it’s a long way to the White House.

[allendale]

Israel has to deal with the real world as it is. China is the dominant power in Asia and that includes the Mideast. America’s influence is waning and within twenty five years little or no of the current American military presence will remain. Also Israel must at least postulate a scenario in which American political support and economic subsidy is no longer a given. They are right to cultivate a relationship with China.