September 6, 2022
Watch the Recording of Our Event on Israel’s Place Between the U.S. and China
By Assaf Orion, David Feith, Elliott Abrams, Jonathan SchachterA China expert, a veteran American diplomat, and a retired Israeli general walk into a Zoom to talk about Israel and where it fits into a new cold war.
Last month, Mosaic published a debate-defining essay on Israel’s relationship with China by Assaf Orion, a retired Israeli general. In it, Orion contends that recent concerns that Israel might be getting too close with China may once have been valid but aren’t any longer: Israel’s ties with China are loosening, and if a new cold war is in the offing, Jerusalem won’t be on Beijing’s side.
To challenge Orion’s ideas and expand on them, we convened a discussion on Tuesday, September 20 with Orion, the China expert David Feith, and the foreign-policy veteran and regular Mosaic writer Elliott Abrams. They were moderated by the Middle East expert Jonathan Schachter. Watch the recording and read the transcript below.
