China's role and position in Israeli foreign policy

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PhD in International Relations, University of Guilan

10.22099/ijas.2025.51834.1019

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In their relations, Israel and China have tried to reduce differences and create common ground to advance their interests. In doing so, they have encountered various structural obstacles and subsequently changed their areas of interaction. These relations bring with them many opportunities that expand alongside China’s economic progress, but they also bring challenges in the wake of the intensification of China-US competition. Israel, as a special actor, is not exempt from the tension between Chinese investment and US security pressures. How and under what conditions does Israel regulate and direct its foreign policy between these two great powers and what effects does it subsequently have on Israeli foreign policy. The hypothesis of the article, based on the analytical method states that given the structural features of Israeli foreign policy and especially the concerns of the US, it is fundamentally impossible to expect a high-level relationship between Israel and China. The research findings indicate that the relations between these two actors have been characterized by a cyclical nature of decline and improvement, and that compliance with US considerations has played a key role in Israeli policy over the last two decades, and has become somewhat realistic and pragmatic.

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Iranian Journal of Asian Studies

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 25 February 2025

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