Can China Replace the United States in Israel?
Our attempts here are not to intellectualize or theorize any of this but to simply present the facts on how Israel has had a history of espionage and spying going on inside America initiated by Henry Kissinger back in 1975. That was Kissinger's role: refine, legalized the theft and then took the pain away from the pillaging of American technology and removing it to Israel. In a very real sense, America was harvested and now it is being discarded like an empty carcass - "Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather." Here is the problem: Suppose a war broke out in the South China Sea between US and Chinese military assets to prevent China from obtaining the "tool shed" Taiwan. What would the consequences be of a scenario like that and a US naval asset gets hit with a Chinese-launched missile that is equipped with technology provided to China by Israel while Washington-based pro-Israel think tank wonks cheer China on? Do we see now that President Trump is caught between Israel and the American people over China?
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The following essay is from one of Australia's most prestigious universities. The University of Western Australia is where the Rhodes Scholar and New Age Socialist Bob Hawke, Australia's favorite 23rd prime minister graduated from.
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Source: State
Israel's Pivot to Eurasia: Part 1
By UWA State | April 10, 2019
Anthony Moulton delves into the international politics between Israel, China and Russia, in this two part investigation into under-reported foreign relations.
The nations of the Anglosphere have become increasingly deindustrialised and outsourced, and Europe's once instinctive vision of 'the West' and its future has begun to seriously falter. In a time of new, far-reaching trade agreements – redrawing lines in the sand that may have long been taken for granted – many once second-rate world powers are emerging from America’s shadow, broadening their horizons, and dreaming big.
Since at least 2013, China has been hard at work establishing their dream of a new 'Silk Road Economic Belt' of global development and investment with their Belt and Road Initiative,[1] and much has been said of Russia's 'pivot to Asia' for some time now. But what has been overshadowed in this discussion of shifting power structures and new trade blocs is our Western ally Israel’s own pivot, towards both Russia and China.
A year ago in Moscow, in April of 2018, Israel launched negotiations with Russia to sign a free-trade agreement with the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union [2] – a political, military and economic union that also seeks camaraderie with Iran, Egypt, India, and Singapore. In the lead up to a third round of negotiations in March, Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov spoke with Russian News Agency TASS. In the interview he praised Israel for not following the lead of the US and other Western countries in imposing sanctions on Russia “despite strong external pressure."
"We hope that our Israeli partners will continue to adhere to this line," he added.
At the same time, Israel has been actively pursuing a free trade agreement with China, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said will be finalised within the year.[3] Speaking at the fourth meeting of the China-Israel Joint Committee on Innovation Cooperation back in October, Netanyahu emphasised the “very powerful" and mutually beneficial potential in combining “Israeli technology and innovation with Chinese industry expertise, innovation and markets."
He noted the history of both countries, describing the Chinese and Jewish people as both being "very conscious of our traditions and very connected to our homeland, but equally eager to develop new approaches."
"We have two ancient civilizations that seize the future" he said.
This partnership is nothing especially new either. While their ties may not exactly be historical, Israel has periodically sought to establish a trade relationship with China since at least the late 70s [4] – sometimes in secret, and often against the ostensible wishes of the United States.
China – a Rocky Relationship
The belts, pipelines, railways and ports of China's Belt and Road Initiative. (July 2018) Source: The Economist
Shaul Eisenberg, an Israeli businessman noted for being the primary catalyst for commerce between South Korea and Japan to Western countries, lead the drive for diplomatic ties with China back in 1979. Riding on his own unmarked Boeing 707 late one night in February that year, Shaul Eisenberg, Gabriel Gidor of Israel Aerospace Industries, and an undefined number of senior representatives from Israel’s foreign and defence ministries, met with a Chinese delegation at a military compound on the outskirts of Beijing.
Israel's Prime Minister, Menachem Begin, had approved the trip. After a number of previous meetings with Chinese representatives, Shaul Eisenberg had returned to the Prime Minister with a shopping list of demands; everything from missiles and radar to artillery shells and armour. After ordering Defense Minister Ezer Weizman to review the list, and personally approve what Israel could and could not sell, he approved the meeting. Shaul's team was provided with brochures of Israeli weapons on offer to present to the Chinese delegation. The Chinese were reportedly impressed but did not rush into any commitments.
This apparent apprehension became the pattern of a number of additional trips the Israeli's took over the next year until eventually an agreement was met, and in 1981, Israel’s first shipment of tank shells arrived in China. Even after agreeing to sign hundreds of millions of dollars worth of contracts, the Chinese still refused to visit the Israeli companies' factories, let alone Israel itself, and their relationship continued to remain a secret to the wider, multilateral world.
But in 1985 this began to change, and for the first time China agreed to issue visas to nine executives from Israel’s agriculture industry. The Chinese still remained reluctant to establish an open relationship, but in 1992, after an encouraging Madrid Peace Conference between Israel and multiple Arab nations (and reportedly a couple of visits from Israeli ministers Moshe Arens and David Levy), China was finally ready to begin official diplomatic ties. Trade between the two nations quickly soared, and today China is one of Israel's biggest import and export markets, second only to the U.S.
This is not to say their partnership hasn't hit a few America-shaped snags along the way. On the 1st of July 2000,[5] only a couple of weeks before he was set to meet with US president Bill Clinton and Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat at the Camp David summit, then Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak met with director-general of the Ministry of Defense Amos Yaron, and his security adviser Danny Yatom, at Yatom's home in Kochav Yair. The three men had convened to discuss a topic which they felt would be inevitably raised at the summit – a contract Israel had already signed with China for the Israeli-Russian built 'Phalcon' Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS), which the US was now demanding they walk away from.
Pentagon officials had warned that the system would give China a dangerous advantage in a potential confrontation in the Taiwanese straits, and also claimed that the system being sold was remarkably similar to America's own AWACS technology. But the main problem was that Israel had already signed a guarantee to compensate China in the case of a breach of contract – which, in the event of, the US had pledged to compensate Israel. And now, a previously apprehensive China was feeling scorned, and was demanding $1.2 billion from Israel. Meanwhile, a US congressman with control over aid spending, Sonny Callahan, was announcing that he would withhold some $250m of Israel's annual $2.82bn in aid if the deal went ahead.
Deputy defense minister Ephraim Sneh described the affair as the most severe crisis in the history of Israel's relations with the United States, and had also cautioned Barak that "the Chinese are slow to exact revenge, but when it comes, it is harsh." The incident caused a loss in confidence for Israel and the US' leaders from both their respective governments, and the Phalcon deal was officially dead in the water, with Israel concluding a $350-million compensation package to China in March of 2002. However, with the Chinese-Russian 'KJ-2000' AWAC serendipitously entering into service two years later, one could argue that the original plan those three men had suggested that day at Yatom’s abode – to go ahead with the installation of radar systems on the 'Ilyushin' Russian transport plane, and deliver it to China at a later date – has since been enacted.
A similar dispute arose later in 2004,[6] when the Israeli Aerospace Industries' 'Harpy' loitering munition systems, which had previously been sold to China in 1994 for around $55 million USD, were returned to Israel under a contract to be upgraded. In their continuing bid to restrict military arms and technology transfers to China, the George W. Bush administration demanded Israel seize the munitions and again nullify the contract. This time Israel openly proceeded with their contractual obligations, and as a result the US suspended Israel from the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter project, and demanded the resignation of General Amos Yaron. Their suspension was brief, being re-admitted into the program in November 2005, but Yaron did later retire.
Most recently causing paranoia for the US [7], Israel has sealed a contract with the Shanghai International Port Group. The contract will lend the keys to Haifa – Israel's largest port, and allegedly stocked with nuclear-armed submarines – for a generous 25 years, starting in 2021.
Established in 2015, the Haifa project has been subsumed by China's Belt and Road Initiative as part of its 'Silk Road Economic Belt and Maritime Silk Road'. Other Israeli infrastructure the Belt and Road Initiative has in its sights includes the proposed 'Med-Red' highspeed railway [8] connecting Eilat to Ashdod. In Ashdod itself, China also have one of the biggest overseas investment projects in lsrael – a $3 billion seaport infrastructure contract with the company China Harbor Engineering.
These major maritime and general infrastructure contracts in Ashdod and Haifa, including the joint research arrangements between China and Haifa's Technion research university, have left the US concerned. They fear China will use the port to improve its standing in the Middle East, potentially gather intelligence on US interests, and continue to receive leaked Israeli-American technology. The US Navy has also been forced to reconsider future naval exercises in Israel.
US Vice President Mike Pence, in a speech to Washington's conservative think tank the Hudson Institute on the 4th of October last year, said that the US "had hoped that economic liberalization would bring China into a greater partnership with us and with the world. Instead, China has chosen economic aggression, which has in turn emboldened its growing military."
"Beijing has prioritized capabilities to erode America’s military advantages on land, at sea, in the air, and in space.," Pence noted.
As the U.S. Sixth Fleet withdraws from the eastern Mediterranean, and the United States' strategic action continues to rely heavily on Israel's naval capabilities, a growing Chinese maritime and naval presence in the region would heavily impede on these strategic partnerships. In the event that the U.S. Senate were again to bring these trade deals to mainstream attention and find them actively pernicious or enabling of Chinese power and influence, one could assume that the result would once again be economic punishment, with sanctions against certain Israeli-Chinese companies or a limiting of military aid. Further still, if an American aircraft were ever downed by a Chinese missile and these contracts could be traced as the prime catalyst for the incident, it would have serious repercussions for the Israeli government and the bilateral US-Israeli relationship.
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