China's Growing Influence in Israel: Benefits and Risks

In recent months, Israel has witnessed a steady escalation of talk about relations with China, especially the latter’s investment increase in heavy infrastructure projects, such as ports, airports and technology; and the latest of which is China’s attempt to obtain a bid to develop the largest desalination plant in the world, despite American pressures to prevent it.

This study discusses the increasing Chinese influence in Israel, the prospects for China-Israel relations, especially the economic ones, whether immediate or strategic, the volume of bilateral trade, mutual deals, and political aspirations based on their own relations. Besides, this study explains how far Israeli parties agree or disagree with these relations, and why the US is upset with them; and it presents a future perspective for these relations.

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