2024.05.28
Grandview Institution 2024.05.28 10:50 Beijing
On May 27th, a delegation from the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) visited GVI. The team consisted of Assaf Orion, Director of Diane Gilford Glazer Center for Israel-China Policy, Galia Lavi, Deputy Director, Ofer Granot, Senior Visiting Fellow, and Tuvia Gering, Research Fellow, accompanied by Edan Morag, military attaché at the Israeli Embassy in Beijing, and Adi Dror, political advisor.
The attendees from the Chinese side included Ren Libo, GVI’s President, Liu Xiaobo, Director of the Center for Maritime Studies, He An, Secretary General and Director of the Center for South Asian Studies, Yang Xiaotong, Head of Research at the Department of International Cooperation, and Arslan, a young researcher. Both parties exchanged views on Sino-Israeli relations and the Middle East situation.
The Israeli think tank experts said this is the first time INSS has visited China since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. China and Israel urgently need to restore people-to-people as well as economic and trade exchanges. Since 2019, Chinese tourists to Israel and Chinese companies' investments in Israel have decreased for many reasons. Both enjoying a long history and a brilliant civilization, the Chinese and the Jewish nations started friendly exchanges a long time ago, and the two peoples endured suffering and hard struggle in similar ways during WWII. Admittedly differences exist between China and Israel but they should not be a stumbling block on the road of Sino-Israeli friendship. The two countries should put aside their discrepancies and work hand-in-hand for the interests of their peoples.
GVI’s experts said that China has repeatedly emphasized its firm opposition to all terrorist acts and all indiscriminate attacks against civilians. Only by achieving a ceasefire as soon as possible can the tragedy of innocent civilian casualties be prevented from continuing, and the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip from worsening. The Two-State Solution is the international community’s consensus on resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The implementation of the solution is the only realistic way out of the cycle of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The Think Tank is ready to work with all parties to promote the convening of a larger, more authoritative, and more effective international peace conference as soon as possible, to formulate a concrete timetable and road map for the carrying out of the Two-State Solution, and to advocate the resumption of the peace talks between the two parties and to ultimately bring forth the peaceful coexistence of Palestine and Israel as two states.