Recently, when covering an investment dispute between a border-area kibbutz in Israel and a Chinese investment fund, some media outlets claimed that “China prohibits investment in Israel.” The Embassy of China in Israel has issued a clarification on this matter through Channel 12.
After the outbreak of the Gaza conflict on October 7, 2023, China adjusted the travel risk level for areas within Israel in line with international practices. As the situation has eased, areas classified as extremely high risk (red) have been significantly reduced and are now limited to small areas around the north border and along the Gaza Stripe border.
Strictly limiting personnel movements and economic activities in extremely high-risk areas is an international practice. Restrictions on economic activities in small, extremely high-risk areas should not be confused with the normal economic and trade exchanges between China and most areas in Israel.
China encourages Israeli friends to engage with us in various forms of economic and trade cooperation, and hopes that all sectors will actively safeguard China-Israel relations and play an active role in advancing bilateral friendship and practical cooperation.
Originally to achieve equidistance with the USSR and USA after the Sino-Soviet split, then to survive the fall of the USSR, nowadays because non-interference is the core principle of their foreign policy. They just do not do embargos, boycotts or sanctions. They do not do “humanitarian interventions”. They do not go and and object to another nation’s actions on moral / human rights grounds because such reasonings are being used continuously as a pretext to oppose and harm them.
Mind you, i obviously disagree with this decision, i am not defending it in any way and i am not interested in debating if it can be critically supported or not, i am just laying out how they go about such matters.