Jerusalem – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walked the Great Wall of China at the end of a state visit to China.
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During the visit, which ended Wednesday, the University of Haifa signed an agreement with the Hangzhou Wahaha Group, a Chinese conglomerate, and the Institute of Automation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences that will establish three joint artificial intelligence technology centers constructed in Haifa, Israel, Hangzhou, China and Beijing, and an initial investment of $10 million.
Chinese billionaire Zong Qinghou, the CEO of the Hangzhou Wahaha Group, will finance the Institutes for Artificial Intelligence Technology Centers.
Netanyahu was present for the signing of the agreement.
Several cooperative agreements between Israel and China also were signed during the visit in areas such as emergency medicine, science, education, intellectual property and environment.
Netanyahu thanked China for its friendship and praised the country in a meeting with President Xi Jinping.
“We admire China’s capabilities, its position on the world stage and in history. We have always believed, as we discussed on my previous visit, that Israel can be a partner, a junior partner, but a perfect partner for China in the development of a variety of technologies that change the way we live, how long we live, how healthy we live, the water we drink, the food we eat, the milk that we drink – in every area,” Netanyahu said.
During the visit, Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, laid a wreath at the Monument to the People’s Heroes in Tiananmen Square.
Israel and China already share the same poor air quality. There are many days that air quality in Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem are much poorer than the air quality in even Beijing. China is doing something about it. Israel has not and doesn’t seem to plan to doing much in the future (other than planning to sell the Chinese technology in order to make money for startups). Maybe the imported Chinese construction workers will complain to their government, and then something will be done!
Best to sell the whole Israel to China with all its industry and technology, for a few trillion dollars, like Hong Kong, and China one country two systems, with two flags, Israel remains democratic, like Hong kong, and then if the Palestinians say they dont recognize Israel, we say “Go talk to Beijing!”
The epitomy of free enterprise Mr. Natanyahu praises a communist regime. I wonder how much money will, flow in Mr. Natanyahu’s pocket