A United States State Department official on Thursday hinted that Israel's continued cooperation with China might be "dangerous."
During a press briefing on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visit in Israel, the official said, "COVID sort of highlights the dangers of dealing with states that are not transparent, that don’t have fair trade practices, that really leverage and torque their trade to leverage certain things out of their trade partners."
"But in particular there’s the issue of strategic investment, that there is no such thing as a privately owned, independent company in China, right." the official said. "If you use Huawei, if you use any type of company that has access to your DNA, that DNA becomes property and that information becomes property of the Chinese Communist Party."