AJC’s Asia Pacific Institute (API) strives to help Israel, the U.S., and the global Jewish community strengthen relations with Indonesia, the fourth-largest country in the world and the country with the world’s largest Muslim population.
“Our annual visits to Seoul demonstrate our continued support for the U.S.-ROK alliance and staunch belief that a U.S. presence in the region is vital to peace and security,” said AJC Asia Pacific Institute (API) Director Shira Loewenberg, who led the 14-member delegation.
“The U.S.-Chinese relationship is arguably the single most important bilateral relationship in the world,” said Shira Loewenberg, Director of AJC’s Asia Pacific Institute, who led the 15-member group.
In 2014, Israel and China established the Joint Committee for Innovation Cooperation (JCIC), a mechanism for government-to-government interaction to promote innovation cooperation in a variety of fields. Vice President Wang was in Israel this week to co-host the fourth meeting of the JCIC – which convenes annually, alternating between Beijing and Jerusalem – together with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He was also the guest of honor at the prime minister’s Innovation Summit and at the grand opening of an innovation section of the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation.