(Newsweek) Elliott Abrams - It was announced last week that later this year Narendra Modi will become the first Indian prime minister to visit Israel. Israel's trade with India reached $4.39 billion in 2013. Chinese President Jiang Zeming visited Israel in 2000, and four Israeli presidents and three prime ministers have visited China, where annual trade with Israel is now over $10 billion. Israel's own "pivot to Asia" is real - and successful. Often more attention is directed at critical actions toward Israel by nations such as Ireland, population 4.6 million, than to Israel's developing political and economic relations with the world's two most populous countries. The writer is senior fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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