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Chinese Officials Are Embracing Israel


(Times of Israel) David Shamah - According to Yongjie Chen, deputy general secretary of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges and a member of the Chinese Communist Party's ruling body, the Politburo, Israel is "the best place in the world for China to invest." In an interview, Chen said there had been a significant change in the Chinese approach to the Middle East in the past 10 years. "It's true that, in the past, the government favored the Arab side more, but in recent years the emphasis of the government has been on rapid technology development, and that is why cooperation with Israel, which has that technology, is growing....You can see that, in recent years, we have conducted a much more positive political policy towards Israel." Chen and nearly two dozen other Chinese government officials were here for the first-ever Israel-China Economic Summit.
2014-05-23 00:00:00
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