Israel National News published an intriguing column article -- the future of Israel depends on the rise of Asia as Western influence declines.
The article pointed out that Israel's war state lasting 20 months has severely hit the Israeli startup ecosystem, with 30% of tech professionals conscripted into military service, and local innovative companies facing a crisis of financing breakdown and talent loss, urgently needing support from Asian capital and technology markets.
At the beginning of this year, the Israeli media began to use the phrase "the irreversible rise of Chinese technology," and after the escalation of the Israel-Iran conflict, this view has become a consensus. Asian countries, especially China, have already formed a technological gap advantage over the West in areas such as artificial intelligence and high-end manufacturing. There are already public calls for restoring friendly relations with China, even forming an alliance.
The full text discusses that Israel is facing a double squeeze of the failure of the Western protection system and worsening regional security. The column article's so-called "going to Asia and getting close to China" is actually an inevitable choice under the geopolitical reality - only by breaking the traditional reliance on allies, through technological cooperation and market integration, can it access the fast track of Asian development, thus breaking out of the historical cycle law (there is a so-called 80-year national extinction curse theory within Israel) and the quagmire of Middle East wars.
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