5/31/2015
The impact of Israeli think tanks and Jewish minorities in China on Arab national security
The purpose of this study is to examine the Jewish and Israeli role in China, and the Israeli contemporary policies towards China, and the influence of these Israeli policies on the Arab national security. For the Chinese, Jews and Israel are the same. Jews have lived in China for nearly 1000 years, Jewish traders from western Asia had settled in "Kaifeng" in China. But, on the other hand the researcher noticed the raising number of Chinese converted Judaism, with regarding to Jewish is not a "Missionary religion" like the Christian or Muslim religion, so the researcher start to ask why are some Chinese converted Judaism? Now, there are five or six main Chinese academics who teach Jewish religion, history, and culture at various universities. There are such Chinese people who educate, in a positive way, thousands of young Chinese scholars in the knowledge of Judaism and Jewish history. All over China, the Torah and the Jewish principles is studied and the Holocaust is taught. Never before has interest in Jews, Jewish culture and Jewish history been so widespread in the world's most populous nation.
Jewish studies has expanded beyond the Chinese researches of a small group of scholars into public spaces in China, especially the university classroom, its scope has been broadened to cover the world.
China is one of the largest exporters to "Israel". It is also quickly becoming the main economic partner of all "Arab states" in the Middle East. Middle Eastern stability and Israel’s role in it are increasingly important for China. For the first time in history, China will directly influence the fate of the Jews, and particularly Israel. Since this influence will grow very quickly, it is important to have China well disposed toward Israel.
Israel and the Jewish people are trying to build bridges of friendship with China and develop a strategic concept on how to further their interests there. The Jewish people are hampered by the fact that they are not a coherent unit. However, the major Jewish organizations try to develop a coordinated policy toward China.
After Mao's death, the government initiated far-reaching economic a nd political changes, now officially referred to as the period of "reform and opening up". One door that was reopened in the 1980s was to Jews: the Jewish past in China and the Jewish present, represented by Israel, became subjects of discussion. First military, then economic, and finally diplomatic ties between China and Israel evolved, until formal relations between the two were announced in 1992. Communities of Jewish foreigners reappeared in Shanghai and developed in Beijing. Jews again became a subject for academic study.
Generally, Jewish studies itself has become much more worldly and diverse. The Israeli and Jewish think tanks and the increasingly of "Chinese converted Judaism" who have a strong connection with "Israel" has a great impact on the "Arab world" represents in broadly knowledge between the Chinese academic and personal Judaic studies in China. In twenty years some of these Chinese students will be in senior positions and are likely to advise their country’s leaders on Jewish and Middle Eastern issues, and this can affect negatively on the "Arab national security", because they will adopt the Israeli points of view. Besides the spread of Chinese young people recruited in the Israeli military and the existence of Sino-Israeli companies under the Israeli leadership and supervision, all of those factors can negatively affect on the Arab national security.