A year later, the installation of Huawei inverters in Israel’s solar-panel grid garnered criticism from a US Department of Energy representative. A new container terminal at the Haifa Port that Shanghai International Ports Group would be operating for 25 years was the first to spark outrage among US officials in 2018. One by one, Israeli infrastructure projects became roiled in controversy. It wasn’t long before US officials began scrutinizing and criticizing what they deemed potentially unsavory collaborations between its most trusted Middle Eastern ally and its newly designated “strategic rival.” To complement its economic statecraft, the US launched a campaign to persuade allies and partners worldwide to limit, exclude, or remove any Chinese involvement in their critical infrastructure and digital ecosystems. Across defense, trade, technology, human rights, global governance and beyond, actions and reprisals by one side or the other escalated. The measures implemented by Trump were scattershot, and his rhetoric toward Beijing was erratic at best. Just nine months after Netanyahu returned from Beijing, the American establishment had concluded that China wished “to shape a world antithetical to US values and interests” and “displace the United States in the Indo-Pacific region”– as articulated in its December 2017 National Security Strategy.īy January 2018, the Donald Trump administration had fired the first shot from its economic cannon, imposing crippling export restrictions on Chinese telecommunication company ZTE. Meanwhile, the sentiment in Washington was much different.
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