以色列可以爭取到中國的投資前景

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about Israel China investment future. This was right before a week full of events I attended to.

幾周前我寫了一篇有關以色列的中國投資前景的文章。那是我在參加了一整週的活動之前寫的。

When invited by Sino-Israel Global Network & Academic Leadership (SIGNAL) to sit at a round table on Israel’s China policy, I didn’t really know what to expect frankly. As a fast paced entrepreneur, dealing with something like policy seemed like a slow thing that would take ages to change and would belong to my parents’ generation. Something belonging to the “old world” with the old “order”.

被邀請參加中以全球網絡和學術領袖會議的我坐在圓桌上討論以色列的中國政策，坦白說我真的沒有什麼好期待的。作爲一個脾氣急躁的企業家，在面對政策這樣的事情時我覺得節奏太慢了，因爲政策要花幾代人的時間才能改變，這是我父母那一代的事物。一個屬於“舊世界”的舊“秩序”的事物。

How does policy making work in the internet era? Diplomacy is a slow industry…

政策制定如何在互聯網時代運作？外交是個遲鈍的行業。。。

Well, surprise here! Policy and strategy are fast changing relevant words for today’s world. Perhaps not as fast as sending a WeChat message but still, you feel the move and you feel the excitement behind when discussing them. Why? Because discussions over such issues can move mountains when they reach the right ears.

但是驚喜出現了！對於如今的世界來說，政策和戰略是快速變化的具有重大意義的詞彙。或許沒有像發微信那麼快，但是當你在討論這些問題時，你依然可以感受到變化及其背後令人興奮的感覺。爲什麼？因爲這類問題的討論在被正確的人聽到時可以產生地動山搖的作用。

One of the main questions I’ve been asking myself, which also came up in the discussion several times is: Is Israel really important to China？

我經常問自己的一個主要問題也是在討論中經常出現的一個問題是：以色列對中國來說真的重要嗎？

We see endless delegations coming in-and-out of Israel for business, investments and academic exchange purposes, but perhaps Israel is just a commodity to consume like any other country in the world which would like to do successful business with a rising superpower.

我們看到無盡的代表團來來往往以色列進行商業，投資和學術交流活動，但是以色列或許只是一種用於消費的商品，就像其他國家那樣，都想和崛起的超級強國建立成功的商業關係。

I of course don’t have an answer to that. But if the answer is: “Yes, Israel is a commodity”; then there should be a discussion of how to handle this reality, how to leverage the assets Israel already has and keep Israel’s competitive advantage over other countries.

我當然無法回答這樣的問題。但如果答案是：“是的，以色列是一種商品”；那麼我們就應該發起相應的討論，比如以色列應該如何處理這個現實，如何利用以色列目前已經擁有的資源，以及如何讓以色列保持對其他國家的競爭優勢。