... promoting a political settlement of the Palestinian issue.
It is also plausible that during the visit of Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu to Iran on August 5, Moscow urged Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to refrain from radical responses to Israel—not only to minimize possible civilian casualties but also to avoid provoking a direct conflict with the U.S.
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However, the core reasons lie not outside, but inside the region. It appears that key actors—from Egypt to Syria, and from Turkey to Iran—are ...
...
Against this background, China’s relations with Israel seem to be totally different, which is interesting. China and Israel have a large number of agreements in various areas and fields. Trade relations between the countries are at a good level as China is Israel’s second largest trading partner, and Israel,
according to the Chinese Ministry of Commerce
, is one of the key partners for China in the Middle East. However, the situation became much more complicated after October 2023, when in a telephone ...
... some Arab countries’ accepting of the Abraham Process are both the manifestation of above-mentioned trends.
However, just as China frequently states on the official level, the Palestine issue remains at the core of Middle East agendas, and is the root ... ... aware of the justice deficit in the issue as recent demonstrations took place in cities across the world.
The recent Palestine-Israel conflict has attracted global attention, but that does not necessarily collect the efforts of the world for the solution ...
... order, then there might be fewer risks for it. The Western allies could concentrate all their power on countering Moscow. But the spread of problems in other directions seriously complicates things. Resources have to be wasted not only on containing China, but also on putting out fires where they supposedly shouldn’t have broken out. With a high probability, Washington will be able to provide Israel with significant military and diplomatic assistance, limiting the next outbreak of conflict. But each such fire requires the concentration of material and financial resources, which are limited even for such a power as the United States.
Moreover,...
... importance to China greatly rising with the advent of BRI, China consistently separated the legal and moral pretexts behind its UN votes from the
pretext
of ‘stability through development’ which insures economic relations with Israel. Consequently, China-Israel trade and investment volumes have grown throughout the years that China has voted against Israel at the UN, remaining unchanged even by the U.S.-Israeli ‘Deal of the Century’
announced
on Palestine in January 2020 which violated all relevant ...
According to the new findings of the ongoing research project, Asian investors continue to increase direct investments in the EAEU. During the monitoring period (2008–2016), FDI stock originating from 12 Asian countries (China, Japan, Turkey, India, Israel, Mongolia, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Iran, Singapore, and Vietnam) has increased from $32 billion in 2008 to $75.6 billion in the beginning of 2017.
China continues to expand its economic presence in EAEU countries and other CIS ...
... member is using repressive tactics in dealing with its 28 million Islamic minority. But the human rights crowd plays down the activities and connections of the Uyghurs in China, whose numbers represent nearly the total Islamic population of Syria.
China also has military technology sharing and other defense relationships with Israel, which by way of its intelligence and military relationships could be considered the “third I” in the BRICS equation.
Israeli academic Dr. Eitan Shamir has published an analysis of the U.S. “appeasement” strategy on the ...