
The Chinese Way: Cultivating Relationships and Building Trust
What makes China so different from the West? Why are relations between Westerners and Chinese so often characterized by disparate expectations and missed communications? And how

Chinese Human Rights Delegation Visits Israel
Amidst allegations of abuses occurring in re-education camps in Xinjiang, and as protests continue to rage in Hong Kong, an official delegation from the China Foundation

Middle East presentation at the Beijing Xiangshan Forum, by Mr. Ahmed Al Mansoori, Dubai
The 2019 Beijing Xiangshan hosted a variety of concurrent sessions focusing on critical issues facing China, the region, and the world. Two of the sessions

SIGNAL Celebrates the Work of Renowned Educator, Prof. Emeritus Meron Medzini
People-to-people relations are a core component of Xi Jinping Thought. The Chinese leadership has been responsible for crafting many policies that include or are centered around

Everything Over the Heavens: A new arena for confrontation and cooperation
There is an ancient Chinese idea that “under heaven’s canopy there is nowhere that is not the king’s land,” this is the concept of Tian Xia.

“Indispensable Netanyahu”- The Israeli prime minister’s diplomatic role has overriding importance for American and world security
After 13 years in office, Benjamin Netanyahu has served long enough to have rankled every Israeli I know. He faces a difficult election on September

Changing world, shifting relations: Israel’s ties with China
Israel and China are peculiar partners. In almost every way, they display contrasts as opposed to commonalities – across cultures, history, size, political systems, economic structures,

Reflecting On Moroccan Sense Of Tolerance
Morocco is not a fully-fledged democracy, as is the case in the West, but incrementally the country, is slowly but surely, moving in that direction.

Israel’s China Challenge
The question of how to deal with an increasingly assertive, powerful China has left many in the international arena baffled – including Israel. Until recently,

Unprecedented Speech By Mossad Chief
Dear friends and colleagues, This morning, Mossad chief Yossi Cohen gave today an unusual speech, the first one of this kind ever given by an acting

Business as Usual? China’s Social Credit System
“Why did you bring me into the world to suffer?” Ren Chen, a 13-year-old boy from Hunan province, asked his mother after a decade of constant illness and

A Global Order of Connectivity – The Chinese Vision
The international political order that was created after the Second World War is based on the concept of sovereignty. With the breakup of the western empires,

Ancient History, Contemporary Practice: China’s Encounter with the Xiongnu
What can China’s struggle with the Xiongnu, a nomadic, horse-riding people who lived on the country’s northern frontier 2000 years ago, teach us about how

From David Ben-Gurion to Ben-Gurion University: the Israel–China Connection, from Idea to Action
David Ben-Gurion, founding father of the State of Israel, often expressed his appreciation for the Chinese people and predicted that China would again play a

What Israel Can Learn from the Sino-Swiss Free Trade Agreement
China and Israel wrapped up their fifth round of free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations this past January. The negotiations began in 2016. Prime Minister Netanyahu