Dr. Eyal Propper is a former senior diplomat of the Israeli Foreign Ministry who has served three times in China. He was one of the first diplomats to work in China after diplomatic relations were established in 1992, returning to Beijing as Deputy Chief of Mission and head of the political department in 2002, and then serving as Consul General in Shanghai from 2017 to 2020. Dr. Propper's PhD thesis was on the topic "Adaptation of the Chinese Foreign Policy Establishment to Reforms and Political Changes 1977-2010", supervised by Professor Yitzhak Shichor, later published as a book titled "Panda or Dragon?". In 2022 Dr. Propper authored "The Red Book: A Guide to Contemporary China". Dr. Propper is currently teaching about China and the Great Power Competition at some of Israel's elite universities.