China seeks clarifications after warnings by Israeli officials

[Kailash Kumar]

China seeks clarifications after warnings by Israeli officials

Chinese officials ask Israeli counterparts about warnings by Israeli officials including the Shin Bet head about relations with China.

Arutz Sheva Staff

22/01/19

The Chinese government is seeking clarification from Israel after a series of statements made by senior Israeli officials warning against tightening ties with China, News 13 correspondent Barak Ravid reported.

A senior Israeli official stated that numerous Chinese officials, including the Chinese ambassador to Israel, senior officials in the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, Chinese Foreign Ministry officials, to diplomats at the Israeli embassy in Beijing have all sought clarifications.

The senior official said that the Chinese noted that they were very concerned about the comments made by the head of the Shin Bet, Nadav Argaman, who warned against Chinese investments in Israel, as well as former Israeli ambassador to China Matan Vilnai, who called for Israel to cancel the tender given to a Chinese company to run part of the port in Haifa. Another issue that raised Chinese dissatisfaction was the intention to set up a government credit mechanism to monitor China's investment.

The senior official added that the Chinese asked for clarifications regarding these statements and moves and wondered if Jerusalem had made a decision to change its policy towards China and cool relations with it, especially in light of the American pressure for Israel to do so. The senior official said that Foreign Ministry officials in Jerusalem and diplomats at the Israeli embassy in Beijing tried to reassure them.

The source cautioned against the use of anti-Chinese rhetoric by Israeli officials.

China has become Israel's second largest trading partner after the United States and defines Israel as a major innovation partner: "Relations with the US are, of course, the core of Israel's national security and there is no intention or desire to harm them," the senior official said. "But we have to find the right way to meet our interests vis-a-vis China."

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/257997

 

[Persian Gulf 1906]

US is not happy abut Israel giving their very important Haifi port to China.

US will be even less happy when Israel rejects their genius 'peace plan'.

 

[Foxtrot Delta]

Leave the united states its old now. Come join pakistan and china. Perhaps we can improve relstions

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

The senior official said that the Chinese noted that they were very concerned about the comments made by the head of the Shin Bet, Nadav Argaman, who warned against Chinese investments in Israel,

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/257404
Shin Bet chief: Chinese influence in Israel is 'dangerous'

09/01/19 Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman warned in a closed lecture at Tel Aviv University that the massive investments of Chinese companies in Israel could pose a danger to the country's security, according to several sources who attended the lecture.

According to Channel 10, Argaman said at the event that "the Chinese influence in Israel is particularly dangerous in everything connected to strategic infrastructure and investments in large companies in the economy."

The report said the Shin Bet chief pointed to the fact that Chinese companies are building the new port in Haifa and the light rail in Tel Aviv, as well as to attempts by Chinese companies to acquire the Phoenix and Clal insurance companies.

Argaman said that, in his opinion, legislation was needed to supervise Chinese investment in Israel. "Israeli law is lagging behind security needs in terms of supervision of investments by foreign countries, and this may be dangerous. Legislation is needed.”

It was also reported that the head of the Shin Bet was the leading source in the defense establishment whose concern about the Chinese resulted in the cancellation of the acquisition of the Phoenix insurance company by a Chinese company.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Bet
"The Israel Security Agency better known by the acronym Shabak or the Shin Bet
is Israel's internal security service"

 

[Feng Leng]

Israel is an illegal Zionist entity. We should not do any business with an illegal entity.