Israel-China relations growing deeper

07.07.2011                      05.Tammus, 5771

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Israel-China relations growing deeper

Technology focus expands to revive defense ties, boost academic exchanges between countries; China sees Israel as critical player in ME.

Israel-China relations, which have focused on cooperation in high technology, have shown signs of widening over the last several months to encompass closer defense and security ties, and academic exchanges, people in the small community of bilateral specialists say.
Ehud Barak visited China in June, the first time in over a decade by a defense minister of Israel, which at one time sold over half a billion dollars of weapons to China annually before US squeezed Israel to halt those ties in the late 1990s….