YnetNews.com reports: “China is not an enemy of Israel nor is it an ally of Iran, according to Dr. Ori Sela, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) and Israel-China Policy Center. China, he says, is motivated by opportunism.

Sela, who is an expert on the history of Early-Modern and Modern China, has researched China’s military history and its foreign relations among other subjects.

‘One must be careful not to affiliate China with one particular global axis or alliance because that would indicate a wide range of common interests, which are not applicable in this case,’ Sela says. ‘China seeks to be a global leader and not part of an existing group. The Chinese do not consider Iran or Russia to be equal partners. Beijing uses both those countries to achieve its own aims’…”