Expanding influences: Egypt's ties with China go beyond security, expert says

Israel-Egypt relations are currently at their most tense since the outbreak of the war in October 2023, former intelligence officer and expert on Egypt, Lt. Col. (Res.) Eli Dekel told Maariv on Tuesday. 

Concerns in Cairo about the potential collapse of the border with the Gaza Strip, the spillover of Gazans into Sinai, and the accumulation of Egyptian forces near the border have raised numerous questions in Jerusalem. 

Meanwhile, a first-of-its-kind military exercise between Egypt and China, which included advanced Chinese fighter jets, managed to surprise even China itself, with the Defense Ministry in Beijing quickly taking pride in it publicly. 

According to Dekel, Egypt...
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