>The tough language on the port in the north has been included in the National Defense Authorization Act, a major piece of legislation that sets the U.S. Defense Department's budget and priorities for the upcoming fiscal year.
>The bill was passed Thursday by the Senate Armed Services Committee, led by Republican Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma.
>The bill was made public earlier this week and devotes two clauses to a contract between the Israeli government and the Shanghai International Port Group. Under the terms of the deal, the Chinese company could operate the Haifa port for 25 years starting in 2021. The bill describes this as an obstacle to U.S. national security considerations.
>“The United States has an interest in the future forward presence of United States naval vessels at the port of Haifa in Israel,” the bill states, “but has serious security concerns with respect to the leasing arrangements of the port of Haifa.” It adds that the U.S. government should “urge the government of Israel to consider the security implications of foreign investment in Israel.”
>While China isn’t directly named in this part of the legislation, the language is a clear reference not just to the Haifa port contract, but to the trend of growing Chinese investment in Israeli infrastructure projects. This issue has already caused tensions between Israel and the Trump administration, as previously reported in Haaretz.
>In discussions with Israeli ministers and other officials, the Americans have raised the specter of China exploiting its ties with Israel to boost its strategic position, and to acquire sensitive intelligence and classified technology. The conversations have included Chinese activity at Israeli sites like the Haifa and Ashdod ports, the Tel Aviv light rail and the Carmel tunnels.
>Some of the conversations became unusually heated. One senior Israeli official told Haaretz last year that U.S. officials “blew up at us” over the Chinese issue. During his visit to Israel in January, U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton mentioned Chinese tech companies Huawei and ZTE and their establishing of a presence in Israel.
>In a separate exchange last year, American officials told their Israeli counterparts that the United States could not be friends with a country for which China was building ports. They mentioned another country, not Israel, but Jerusalem got the hint.
>The Americans asked Israel for guarantees that China would not be able to use projects in Israel to improve its strategic standing and intelligence capabilities. They remained unconvinced by the Israelis' answers and said if proper assurances could not be provided, this would be grounds for Israel to reconsider its contracts with China.
>With the Senate now weighing in via legislation, the pressure is likely to increase on Israel to limit Chinese investments. Moreover, Inhofe is known as an ardent supporter of Israel who rarely criticizes its government and holds strong right-wing views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A bill from his committee directly warning Israel over a national security issue shows the level of frustration in Washington over the issue.
Luis Robinson
>The bill is expected to pass in the entire Senate, and while some changes could be made, the language on the Haifa port is likely to remain, as limiting China’s economic footprint is a joint priority for both parties in Washington. Nearly all members of the Armed Services Committee voted for the bill in its current form, Republicans and Democrats alike.
>An op-ed in The Wall Street Journal last month warned that the dispute over the Chinese investments has “the potential to disrupt defense cooperation between the U.S. and Israel and embroil the Jewish state in America’s increasingly intense trade conflict with China.”
>Columnist William Galston added: “Doing business with China is not the same as doing business with a democracy. Does Israel really want to enable China’s rise at the cost of weakening its relationship with its greatest ally?”
Matthew Butler
I am more suprised that the US congress goes against Israel on anything.
David Robinson
sage, slide thread
Charles Parker
FUCK SENATE
Luke Hill
Israel is dooomed
Christian Hernandez
anti spic bump
Adrian Smith
If Israel keeps depending on China then that's good. It means China can fuck their economy if they wanted to. I hope they get outjewed
Cooper Anderson
Trump is making Israel destroy themselves.
Kevin Richardson
>criticized >tough language >the US "should" urge >hints >discussion >conversation >exchange >americans asked israel
Id eat my own dick and livestream it if this goes beyond anything other than strong language. Israel owns almost every politican ITS FUCKING NOTHING!!!
My thought exactly. The so called "trade wars" is making America and China less dependent on the other. I think the reason why Obama gave out bad deals to China which favored China more is so that the kikes can crash America and china's economy so badly that the solution would be to create a one world government. Fortunately this is looking less likely by the day
>g..guyz, thought you were our greatest ally >guys??? G..GUYZZZ????? oh look the retards literally handed the codes to the kikes who then handed the codes to the ching-chongs i swear, Republicans are utter retards
Christian Nguyen
Don't worry about it. China wants closer ties with Iran.
Jonathan Diaz
Fucking retard
Carter Edwards
That's a very round about way of saying Israel can't be trusted and has no loyalty or gratitude towards the US.
Charles Morgan
bump
Lincoln Ramirez
It's a distraction. Ignore the spying from Intel and IBM goy, the only bad actor is Huawei. Now they'll prove how secure those companies are by removing the Chinese influence.
Alexander Nelson
Based chinks
Jacob Bell
Makes sense. The US is in decline, who's gonna fight and finance for future Israel wars?
Brandon Morris
America will still always die for Israel no matter what.
If you aren't ready to die for israel you're not american
Evan Bennett
The IDF is gonna be fighting its own war without US support soon. Good luck kike.
Dominic Powell
>kike lapdogs yelping something and their masters im gonna enjoy how their voice will die in a complete lack of responce
Dominic Green
(((their plan))) is to flee to Asia, Oceania and some places in South America.
Easton Parker
bump
Nathaniel Johnson
Time to cut the kikes loose boys
Luke Diaz
If Trump was really trying to pull one on Israel he would put as ambassador for Israel a literal Muslim named Mohammad.
Colton Bell
Google how many jews live in argentina.
Zachary Watson
And Brazil, USA, Canada...
Henry Howard
huehue knows.
Ayden Sanders
EVERY major tech company and defense contractor has created duplicate corporate offices in israel. This is so they can own all of our technology and do whatever they want with it. They are going to leave the usa high and dry like they have done to countless other countries for thousands of years. Our “greatest ally” actually is going to carve up our country and sell it all off to the highest bidder (china).
The only way the USA makes it out of this on top is to take control and close our corporate bases in israel.
Ethan Miller
Too direct not subtle enough
Isaiah King
White people are not going to do it because unlike what some tiny but vocal Jow Forums whiteoids say about their own race is bullshit. Wealthy whites have no kinship whatsoever to poor whites and not even to middle-class whites.
Nathan Murphy
Oy Gevalt!
Lucas Jackson
best ally
Ethan Bell
Trump is helping the parasite finish hollowing out the host.
They know America is dying and are looking to detatch from the US and start sucking China's blood. Good luck with that, China is wise to Jewish tricks and won't fall for them. It's gonna be Shoah 2, for real this time.
I think it's not good for Israel being dependent on America.
It puts them in a vulnerable position, they are dragged into many projects they don't want to be part of.
Look at that case last week in Poland, where America used the holocaust and holocaust compensation as a pawn in negotiations thereby severing relationships between Poland and Israel, and making everyone in the public anti-Israel in the process.
Alexander Cox
>US tells Israel relations are going to degrade if they get involved with china >NEETsoc invades thread with usual copespun narratives >ignores the fact that America controls the global economy HAHA IDK WHATS GOING ON BUT ORANGE MAN BAD :D
Then he did not do anything he said he would regarding Syria and even declared Jerusalem Israel's capital. No one in the history of the USA has dared do such a thing. He approved 38 billion.
Yeah but saying the economy is going to crash the moment it ramps up and continuing the rhetoric for three years straight is not going to collapse it any faster. The American economy has been getting suppressed since the 60s.
>the jews are in cpnflict! >who told you that? >the mainstream media
kek, so much for fake news eh goy? ;^)
Dominic Wilson
This might explain why american jews have betrayed Trump left and right but it's obvious Trump stands with Israel. Trump stands with Israel.
Easton Gutierrez
>The Americans asked Israel for guarantees that China would not be able to use projects in Israel to improve its strategic standing and intelligence capabilities. They remained unconvinced by the Israelis' answers and said if proper assurances could not be provided, this would be grounds for Israel to reconsider its contracts with China. The golem is finally turning on its master...
Angel Evans
This is a serious post . No BS. Not putting the US down or anything like that . I think the US should be very worried .
So the Jews underestimated the hatred Americans have for the Chinese?
Jace Martinez
White people are not disappearing. The demographics change is purely due to an increase of certain demographics through immigration. The infographs shown on Jow Forums are overall percentages but they do not show overall population growth, deaths and births. Spics and trannies have a higher suicide rate than whites per capita and niggers kill themselves all the time.
You're falling for propaganda.
Jose Torres
Saging doesn't work anymore.
Asher Smith
announcing a rosemary, parsley, sage, etc is against the rules
>The few cowboys left in the IC finally caught up to what Jow Forums was talking about in 2015 It's about fucking time you damn slowpokes.
Matthew Edwards
Truth. They're going to fuck us just like they did with South Africa
Aiden Phillips
>implying kikes aren't a bunch of rats just waiting to turn on each other, because despite how much they hate the goyim, they hate each other and themselves even more
