December 4, 2014 | The Washington Post

Israel is the Latest Target for China’s ‘Panda Diplomacy’


Perhaps even tougher may be Beijing's friendly relationship with Iran and its support for Tehran at the United Nations. That support has been tempered in the past few years (after significant lobbying from Israel), but it remains an awkward issue. “As the People's Republic discovers the Jews, it should remember an old Yiddish proverb,” Oren Kessler, a former editor at the Jerusalem Post who is now deputy director of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in 2012. “You can't dance at two weddings at once.”

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