Analysis
Friday, June 27th 2025
Simcha Brodsky JFeed, June 15, 2025 “From Israel’s vantage point, China’s involvement is a dangerous wildcard.” As Israel intensifies its military campaign against Iran, a second Chinese transport plane has reportedly landed in Iran, sparking fears that Beijing is quietly bolstering its strategic ally. With Iran as China’s largest oil provider, the escalating conflict threatens to disrupt […]
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Zineb Riboua Mosaic, June 23, 2025 “For China and Russia, this narrative of a sacred struggle against the West offers a moral framework for challenging the U.S.-led order—making Iran not just a strategic ally, but an ideological force within the axis.” Israel’s Operation Rising Lion unleashed a ferocious assault, swiftly dismantling Iran’s warfighting infrastructure. […]
Thursday, January 2nd 2025
Scott N. Romaniuk & László Csicsmann Geopolitical Monitor, Dec. 23, 2024 “Beijing’s present-day relationship with the region consists of four facets: domestic/regional security, culture, economy, and politics/diplomacy.” The abrupt ouster of the Assad regime in Syria after five decades of its reign caught governments around the world by surprise. This sudden transition of power and major shift […]
Wednesday, November 29th 2023
Lauren Dagan Amoss Algemeiner, Nov. 27, 2023 “Until October 11, Japan did not address Hamas actions at all and did not explicitly acknowledge Israel’s right to self-defense. Only in the past two weeks has there been a noticeable shift in this approach: Japan expressed a willingness to convey messages to Iran to prevent escalation […]
Thursday, August 31st 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Michael Bennon and Francis Fukuyama Foreign Affairs, Aug. 22, 2023 “The biggest problem by far, however, is debt.” This year marks the tenth anniversary of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative, the largest and most ambitious infrastructure development project in human history. China has lent more than $1 trillion to more than […]
Monday, July 31st 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023
J.E. Dyers The Optimistic Conservative, July 28, 2023 “The same pattern overlays nicely on the Biden administration’s move against Malley.” There’s an interesting tale of two official “disappearings” out there, one involving the U.S. and the other in China. I don’t intend to go in-depth on either one here, partly because doing so would cause […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Friday, April 21st 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
SHABBAT READING The Plague of Evil Speech: Tazria, Metzora, 5768, 5783: Jonathan Sacks, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy — The Rabbis moralised the condition of tzara’at – often translated as leprosy – the subject that dominates both Tazria and Metzora. It was, they said, a punishment rather than a medical condition. Their interpretation was based on the internal evidence of the Mosaic books […]
Robert Fife and Stephen Chase Globe and Mail, Mar. 2, 2023 “Classified documents revealed the campaign’s goals were to ensure that a minority Liberal government was returned in 2021 and that certain Conservative candidates identified by China were defeated.” China appears to have targeted Justin Trudeau in a foreign influence operation after he became Liberal […]
Omid Horeishi The Epoch Times, Apr. 19, 2023 “Citing unnamed insiders at the foundation and an internal document, La Presse said the money couldn’t be returned because the name on the donation cheque wasn’t the same name as that of the real donor.” At the centre of the controversy surrounding the Pierre Elliott Trudeau […]
James Griffiths Globe and Mail, Apr. 16, 2023 “The donations did raise some eyebrows, as did Mr. Zhang’s attendance at a cash-for-access fundraiser with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in May, 2016.” Zhang Bin, a wealthy Chinese businessman, finds himself in the middle of a controversial 2016 donation to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation that The Globe […]
Tristin Hopper National Post, Mar. 6, 2023 “Pierre Trudeau had an open affinity for Communist China that would be strange even by the standards of 2023.” Of the many CSIS leaks to hit headlines in recent days, one of the most explosive was an intelligence report claiming that Chinese agents have pursued an “influence” […]
Thursday, March 16th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Analysis: In His Parting Words, Li Keqiang Warns That’Heaven Is Watching‘: Katsuji Nakazawa, Nikkei Asia, Mar. 9, 2023 The China Speech a President Should Give: John Hillen, National Review, Feb. 16, 2023 Are We Beating China Economically?: Derek Scissors, National Review, Feb. 16, 2023 How Beijing Boxed America Out of the South China Sea: Niharika Mandhana, WSJ, Mar. 11, […]
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