Editor’s note for June 27, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Dear reader:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to visit China and meet Xí Jìnpíng 习近平 next month, in trip that the Times of Israel says is “likely to annoy” U.S. President Joe Biden.
The context, as we’ve reported over the last couple of months:
- China’s meeting with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas wasn’t really about peace
- China’s fanciful dream to play Israeli-Palestinian peacemaker
- Beijing brokers a Saudi-Iranian rapprochement
Our Word of the Day is: Israel (以色列 yǐsèliè).
