China's Increasing Investment In Israel

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China, following the lead of the United States (predominantly as the US was conducting itself during the period between 1990 and 2004), is increasing its investments in Israeli companies, technologies. China's increased presence in Israel is also acting to facilitate increased joint ventures and cooperative activities.

This economic and sociological phenomenon is also creating a curious demographic: More Chinese companies are being incorporated or re-domiciled in Israel, and Israeli companies are setting up shop in China as well. Not an increased number of Chinese are calling Israel home, and an increasing number of Israelis are re-locating to China.

A recent article in SmartPlanet written by Charlie Osborn (January 2, 2013) discusses the China-Israel connection and the reasons for the strengthening ties between the two powers, economies and peoples:

Chinese firms eye Israeli technology

Following the United States’ lead, major Chinese firms are looking for investment opportunities in Israel.

The U.S. has invested in businesses located in the region for years, and now the Chinese are taking advantage of Israel’s commercial technology and research, according to Reuters. Last month, a troupe of Chinese business officials visited the region — still affected by the battle in Gaza — in order to further explore potential ventures.

Led by chairman of investment holding firm Hang Lung Group, Ronnie Chan, and including delegates from Lenovo, COFCO and the Chinese branch of JP Morgan Chase, the group is considering the option of investing further in Israel, which has seen Chinese funding reaching approximately $3 billion to date.
Chan told the news agency:

“The sky is the limit. Some companies can set up research and development centers here, some can bring Israeli companies to China, some can open up the Chinese market for Israeli companies. I have no idea where this will lead.”

According to Israel’s Foreign Ministry, bilateral trade between the two countries reached $8 billion in 2011. The largest singular Chinese investment within an Israeli venture to date was the 60 percent acquisition of crop production chemical maker MA Industries by ChemChina for $1.4 billion.

Edouard Cukierman, organiser of the trip and managing partner of private equity funds Catalyst Investments, said that the visit could lead to more acquisitions and potential funding for projects in research. Cukierman noted:

“We are following up with each one of them, preparing specific action plans for each one of them. They believe they can benefit from innovation in Israel more than the Americans did.”

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While these bits of information (some anecdotal and some factual and verified) regarding Israel are not generally well-known to most of the western industrialized nations, or even acknowledged, they may well explain some of the magnetism which attracts the Chinese to Israel:

1) Israel is one of the world's top 10 inventors and producers of multi-industry technologies;

2) Israel probably has more of its companies traded on public exchanges and bourses throughout the world (as well as within Israel) than any other nation;

3) Israeli companies tend to be capitalized with minimal debt (very much in philosophical alignment with the way Chinese and other Asian companies grew throughout the 1990s), and principally with equity capital from stock sales and internally-generated earnings;

4) Israeli companies tend to become self-sustaining much earlier in their developmental cycle, and at a much smaller launch capitalization than US and other companies due to a combination of a powerful work ethic, more loyalty between employees and their employers, and very strict financial management.

5) Israel may quite possibly be the creator of some of the most advanced technologies in the world, especially regarding information processing, communications and applications, as well as in biotech, nanotechnologies, AI (Artificial Intelligence), data mining, managing and leveraging big data and a host of technologies relating to military intelligence and operations -- hopefully, many of these will ultimately come out of the black and enter the commercial sector for productive peacetime use.

Expect to hear increasingly about Israel's rapidly-solidifying trade partnership and strategic alliance with China. In certain ways, since the US economy is suffering and a big concern about the Chinese propensity of late toward aggressiveness and acquisitiveness, Israel is an ally (in many senses of this term to both nations as well as a trading partner to each). This is more likely than not a very good state of affairs for the United States. In understanding some of the basic tenets of Internationalism and diplomacy, when two countries are either at odds with each other or are not as friendly as they might otherwise be with each other, a mutual ally is a wonderful means of keeping an open door with respect to discussions and negotiations.

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Douglas E. Castle 

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Resignation to the Inevitable, or Self-Fulfilling Prophesy?

Written by author Douglas Castle for The Internationalist Page.

Dear Friends:

I do a tremendous amount of reading (more accurately, "scanning" of the news media) from as many different sources as I can find. I listen to the ravings of the right, the whinings of the left, and everything either in-between or defying political categorization. I do this in order to to determine, both intellectually and intuitively, where I stand on various issues.

As an Internationalist, I am not invested in anything political, philosophical, or ethical except in finding ways and means through which Humankind can survive long enough to evolve to a state of peace and prosperity. I am invested in the notion of ending Human suffering, to the extent that we, as responsible Humans ourselves, can rally the support, the critical mass and the momentum to end a recurring pattern of repeating history instead of planning and determining our own future.

I am, as are many others who are similarly-minded, tired of the swinging pendulum from one extreme to another that seems to entrap us from making any progress in rising out of the pit (my apologies to the late Edgar Allen Poe).

I blog about Braintenance (http://braintenance.blogspot.com/) and other other subjects having to do with behavioral psychology, the workings of the mind, entrainment, learning processes, self-growth and multitudinous other topics... This post is strictly pragmatic.

I do not usually read THE WEEK, but I had inadvertently clicked on a link to an article which was of immediate interest. The article, which is reproducedin summary below, is a rather dispiriting one. It speaks of the fact that recent surveys (the Pew Survey is mentioned here specificially) indicate that an increasing number of Americans surveyed believe that China has risen to a position of global power and prominence greater than that formerly acknowledged to be the province of the United States.

Regardless of the relative ranking of the two sovereigns side by side, I must wonder about how much of this situation is actually fueled by the discouragement, inertia and indolence associated with a negative self-fulfilling prophesy. I know that if I cannot visualize myself succeeding a something, I have automatically re-programmed myself to increase my likelihood of failure.

Without becoming too involved in scientific theory, I am wondering just how helpful it might be to the US economy, as well as other economies besieged by the disillusionment and hardship imposed upon them by the recent economic recession (and the accompanying emotional dampening -- the "poverty of spirit" -- that continues to cast its dark and heavy shroud over virtually every aspect of Human and International affairs) if a new and credible source of pure ideological hope were introduced.

We need hope, drawn or apported from some source as yet unidentified, in order to re-ignite our self-confidence, our optimism, our intracranial projection of a positive future, in order to create the change required to pull ourselves out of the quagmire of fated failure.

I cannot seem to bring myself to believe that anything is inevitable, except for the effect that the prevalent social psyche has on every nation's economy. Intuitively, I believe that we are caught in a maelstrom of a very persistent self-fulfilling prophesy, and that hope (some might say "faith") is the only catalyst that can re-set our dampened trajectory. 

Yes, we need real solutions to real problems. But we need the productive energy which is born only of hope in order to put those changes into effect.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle, Internationalist
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Have Americans given up on America?

In an unprecedented Pew study, a majority of Americans rank China as the No. 1 superpower. Are we losing faith?

World News & Opinion

Friday, December 4, 2009

Best opinion: NY Times, Miller-McCune, Politics Daily

Global-power experts have predicted the rise of China for some time, but Americans already seem to think China’s eclipsed the U.S. According to a new Pew survey, 44 percent of Americans consider China the world's No. 1 economic power, while only 27 percent say so of America. (Just last year, the respective rankings were reversed.) Has America given up on being No. 1?

China has stolen our mojo: Can-do Americans used to be “famous for their energy and workaholism,” says David Brooks in The New York Times, but now the “astonishingly optimistic” Chinese are the ones who “salivate for the future." According to the poll, 86 percent of Americans see China heading in the right direction; less than half of respondents feel the same way about the U.S.
“The nation of futurity”

America is afraid: Viewing China as No. 1 economically is unprecedented, says Emily Badger at Miller-McCune. And a 53 percent majority of Americans view China’s emerging power as a “major threat” to the U.S. That doesn’t mean we want to deal with it, though—a record 49 percent said the U.S. “should mind its own business” internationally.
“A nation of ostriches and peacocks”

At least we still have military dominance: Though 41 percent say the U.S. plays a less important role on the world stage than a decade ago, says Bruce Drake in Politics Daily, we’re not feeling weak. A strong 63 percent still pick the U.S. as the world’s leading military power.
“As U.S. expands role overseas, survey finds isolationism on the rise”

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