China is burning all its bridges with Israel

Desire to be seen as champion of Global South drives policy tilt

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Zhang Jun, then China's U.N. ambassador, joins a Security Council debate in March on calling for a cease fire in Gaza.  © Reuters

Derek Grossman is a senior defense analyst at the think tank RAND Corp. in Santa Monica, California, and an adjunct professor in the practice of political science and international relations at the University of Southern California. He formerly served as an intelligence adviser at the Pentagon.

Last July, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted a picture of himself receiving a gift from Chinese Ambassador Cai Run of autographed copies of President Xi Jinping's four-volume collection, "The Governance of China."

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