By Mercy A. Kuo and Angelica O. Tang
Insights from Yoram Evron, Assistant Professor, University of Haifa.
The Rebalance authors Mercy Kuo and Angie Tang regularly engage subject-matter experts, policy practitioners and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into the U.S. rebalance to Asia. This conversation with Dr. Yoram Evron – Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Haifa in Israel and author of the forthcoming China’s Military Procurement in the Reform Era: The Setting of New Directions (Routledge 2015) – is the second in “The Rebalance Insight Series.”
Let’s begin with Israel’s recent decision to join China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). What are the broader implications of this move?
Israel’s joining the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is the most recent development in what seems an enduring Israeli effort to strengthen its ties with Asian countries, China in particular. Considering China’s growing influence worldwide and the loaded relations between the White House and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this comes as no surprise. Most disturbing from Washington’s point of view is the possibility of renewed defense relations between Israel and China, but not only that.
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