On April 15, some netizens posted that the Israeli Defense Ministry website blocked all IPs in Chinese mainland.
Is this statement true, and is Israel concerned about whether to expand the ban on Chinese IP, and will it affect China-Israel e-commerce trade and logistics cooperation?
The reporter of the "Palestinian-Israeli conflict and logistics" column of "Modern Logistics News" verified it.
01 Mainland IP cannot access the Israeli Ministry of Defense website
(Source: Israeli Ministry of Defense website mod.gov.il)
Journalists logged on to the official website of the Israeli Ministry of Defense and found that the website was no longer accessible. Two media professionals working in Hong Kong and Japan both told reporters that they were able to access the website normally.
(Source: Alibaba Cloud Network Dialing Test Website)
Are Chinese mainland IP addresses no longer accessible to the Israeli Ministry of Defense website?
The reporter tested the availability of the domain name of the website in various regions of the mainland through the Alibaba Cloud network dial test tool.
The results show that the HTTP status code of servers from all regions of Chinese mainland when accessing the website is 503, and the HTTP details are "Service Unavailable".
The reporter checked the information and found that 503 usually means that the server is temporarily unable to process the client's request.
(Source: http://www.defense.gouv.fr/ website of the French Ministry of Defense)
(Source: Russian Ministry of Defense http://www.mil.ru/)
In addition, this reporter also visited the websites of the defense ministries of other countries, and the websites of the defense ministries of Russia, Britain, France, Germany, Singapore, Canada, and Australia can respond normally, while the Japanese Defense Agency and the US Department of Defense cannot respond normally.
02 The website of the Israeli logistics company is still normal
Does the inaccessibility of the Israeli Ministry of Defense website mean that the websites of other relevant Israeli departments and enterprises are no longer open to Chinese mainland?
After investigation, a reporter from Modern Logistics found that the official website of the Israeli government can still be accessed normally, and the websites of its relevant departments, such as the Ministry of Transport and Road Safety and the Ministry of Communications, can also be accessed normally.
(Zodiac Maritime Ltd.官网)
In addition, the official websites of ZIM Integrated Shipping Co., Ltd., one of the world's top ten shipping companies and Israel's largest shipping company, as well as W.T.A. Cargo Company, Zodiac Maritime Ltd. and other mainstream Israeli logistics companies can also be accessed normally in Chinese mainland.
It is understood that ZIM Integrated Shipping Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as ZIM Shipping) is one of the largest container shipping companies in the world. In the "2023 Global Shipping Company Brand Value Top 10 List", ZIM Shipping ranked 10th.
(W.T.A Cargo Company Official Website)
Founded in 2001 to provide G.S.A. and G.H.A. services to airlines flying to Israel, as well as offline airlines in cargo operations and sales, the company is an international ship management company that owns and leases large vessels, according to the official website of W.T.A. Ltd.
In fact, ZIM shipping is also very closely linked to China. In 1998, it established a wholly-owned subsidiary, ZIM Integrated Shipping (China) Co., Ltd., in China. The company provides customers with a wide range of import and export channels, including round-trip services to and from North America, Europe and the Mediterranean, Australia, West Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and has developed a complete service network throughout China.
According to data recently released by Alphaliner, a shipping consulting agency, as of April 9, the number of ships operated by ZIM Shipping reached 131, with a total capacity of 707,332 TEU, surpassing the total capacity of 707,018 TEU of Taiwan's Yang Ming Shipping Group and becoming the ninth place in the global liner company capacity list.
03 Behind the ban on visits: the reason for national security?
As the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the Iran-Israel conflict continue to deepen, Israel's security situation is also facing multiple challenges.
According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Israel's main information center has recently been hit by a major cyber attack, in which the attackers not only destroyed the data center, but also created a website to disseminate the stolen data.
(Zodiac Maritime运营船只来源:维基百科)
Israel's shipping industry is also under threat. In November 2023, during the war between Israel and Hamas, an oil tanker owned by Zodiac Maritime Ltd., the Central Park, was attacked by suspected Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden.
However, China has not "chosen sides" in this conflict, but has called on all parties to resolve the issue peacefully. According to the Global Times, on April 15, the Chinese government's special envoy for the Middle East, Zhai Jun, said in a meeting with Israeli Ambassador to China Pan Qirui that all parties concerned should maintain maximum calm and restraint, immediately cease fire and cease fighting in the Gaza Strip, and achieve a political settlement of the Palestinian issue on the basis of the "two-state solution".
On the other hand, since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Israel in 1992, the relations between the two countries have also enjoyed sustained and healthy development over the years.
The Israeli Consul General in Shanghai, Edward Shapira, has said that the relations between the two countries have withstood the test of the complex international situation. Although Israeli-Chinese relations have experienced many ups and downs, the two countries have always adhered to the cornerstone of mutual respect and friendship.
In 2022, the Blue Book of Israel: Israel Development Report (2021), jointly released by the Institute of Asian Studies of Zhengzhou University, the Center for Israel Studies of Henan University, and the Social Sciences Academic Press, pointed out that since the establishment of diplomatic relations, China and Israel have a good foundation for cooperation in economic and trade, industrial cooperation, and cultural exchanges, and in 2014, the two countries established the China-Israel Joint Committee on Innovation Cooperation, and in 2017, the two countries formally established the "Comprehensive Partnership for Innovation".
The report shows that in the field of electronic information, China and Israel mainly cooperate in the fields of software engineering, electronics and electronic engineering, and industrial engineering, and the quality of collaborative papers in imaging science is the highest.
In terms of industrial R&D, Israel has carried out cooperative R&D with Shandong, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) in mainland China through joint R&D projects and joint construction of platforms.
It can be seen that in the new round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict since last year, the Chinese authorities have always maintained an objective and fair attitude. China and Israel have no conflict and have good cooperation in the field of electronic information, and there is no reason for the Ministry of National Defense website to ban Chinese mainland IP access.
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