PM Netanyahu meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping 9-May-2013
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PM Netanyahu meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping

  • 5/9/2013
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    My proposal is to have a government-to-government systematic plan to make partnerships between Israeli technologists and experts and [their] Chinese counterparts.
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    PM Netanyahu meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping PM Netanyahu meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping Copyright: GPO/Avi Ohayon
     
     
    (Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, today (Thursday, 9 May 2013), in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and said, at the start of the meeting:

    "We view China with great admiration and we know that it is led by forward-looking leaders with great vision, great clarity and great openness. As you said, I came in an interval of 15 years and the success of China, its development, is remarkable. In that time Israel also made many gains, many achievements. But I believe that we cannot rest on our laurels, on our past successes. We have to assure success of the future, this is my approach to Israel.

    So I came with a simple proposal, that we seize the future using our respective advantages. China is a leading global power in so many fields, and Israel is a global center of technology. My proposal is to have a government-to-government systematic plan to make partnerships between Israeli technologists and experts and [their] Chinese counterparts, on a level of senior officials, based on China's five years plan, and I think that we can achieve even greater successes working together."


     

  • PM Netanyahu at Chinese future leadership training school

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    (Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)
    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, today (Thursday, 9 May 2013), addressed students at an elite Chinese school for training future leaders, becoming only the second foreign leader (after the Prime Minister of Singapore) to do so in the past year.
    Copyright: GPO/Avi Ohayon

    Prime Minister Netanyahu thanked his hosts for according him the honor of speaking to China's future leaders and told the school directors that leadership is the ability to foresee and change the future.
    Prime Minister Netanyahu briefed the students on Israel's technological abilities and the efforts being invested in finding alternatives to oil in order to reduce the world's dependence on petroleum. He also noted the agreement that he reached with his Chinese counterpart yesterday on establishing a joint working team to prepare a strategic plan on cooperation in civilian fields such as water, food and public health systems. The Prime Minister asserted that he was in China because he believes in bilateral ties and added that he thought the two countries could achieve better results. In reference to the threats directed against the State of Israel, the Prime Minister said that the most dangerous regime in the world could not be allowed to arm itself with the most dangerous weapons in the world.
    Prime Minister Netanyahu signed the guestbook: "Many thanks for inviting me to address China's future generation of leaders. With deep appreciation and respect, Benjamin Netanyahu."
    Earlier, while touring the Great Wall of China, PM Netanyahu said: "Just like the Chinese protected themselves and defended themselves with the Great Wall, so we will continue to defend ourselves on the southern border, the Golan Heights and on all fronts."