Washington has in recent years given Israel an earful about its economic ties to China. Israel has responded positively, even at the risk of inviting short-term economic harm. Recently, Israel rejected a bid by the state-owned China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation to build a light rail system. In a bizarre twist, CRRC is now more welcome in the United States thanks to a decision by the Biden administration to remove it from a list of Communist Chinese military companies. Israel and the U.S. enjoy a strong and long-standing alliance. However, China has occasionally been a source of friction. This was not the case for the first four decades of Israel’s existence. China sided with the Arab states and sold them weapons. But in the 1990s, ties began to thaw. In 1999, Washington vetoed Israel’s proposed...