As U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping prepare for their high-stakes summit in South Korea this week, Israeli legal scholar and reform advocate Adv. Shraga Biran has issued a moral challenge that goes far beyond trade or technology: a call for both leaders to sign what he calls the “death warrant for global terrorism.”
Biran — a 90-year-old lawyer, former partisan fighter, and founder of Israel’s Institute for Structural Reforms (ISR) — has sent formal letters to both Washington and Beijing, urging Trump and Xi to use their meeting to jointly declare war on terrorism and antisemitism.
“This is not diplomacy,” he says. “It is a moral and civilizational imperative.”
Biran’s message is built on a simple conviction: only the world’s two largest powers, representing more than half of global output, possess the authority and capacity to crush terrorism’s economic and ideological roots.
“The American eagle and the Chinese dragon can do it,” he says. “They carry not only power but responsibility.”
A Moral Blueprint for a Global Alliance
Biran’s new initiative, The Trump–Xi Summit Imperative, expands on his 2023 book Liberating Gaza and his forthcoming work When Eagle and Dragon Unite: A Global Alliance to Rebuild Gaza and Eradicate Terrorism Worldwide.
His argument is stark: local wars — whether in Gaza, Syria, or Ukraine — will continue to regenerate unless the world’s superpowers coordinate a global campaign to dismantle terrorism’s deeper ecosystem of poverty, fundamentalism, and manipulation.
“The fight against Hamas, ISIS, or al-Qaeda means nothing if their economic and ideological networks are left untouched,” Biran writes. “Terrorism is a cancer — cutting the tail is useless if the head survives.”
He envisions a U.S.–China–led international task force dedicated to “de-Hamasization and denazification in the style of 2025,” pairing economic reconstruction with coordinated intelligence and law enforcement operations.
His proposal calls for diverting one percent of global wealth — roughly $4.5 trillion — toward eradicating poverty in vulnerable regions, which he views as terrorism’s primary incubator. “This is not charity,” he insists, “it is enlightened self-interest.”
Parallels in Power and Principle
Biran argues that Trump and Xi, despite their ideological differences, already share the same moral vocabulary.
Trump’s condemnation of “jihadist terrorism and militant antisemitism,” and Xi’s pledge to combat the “three evils” of terrorism, separatism, and extremism, demonstrate a rare convergence. Both leaders, he says, “speak the same language of necessity.”
He also points to their nations’ moral histories: America’s post-9/11 campaign against extremism and China’s wartime refuge for 20,000 Jewish refugees during the Holocaust. “China is the only civilization where the word ‘antisemitism’ has no translation,” he notes.
A Warning from History
Drawing parallels to the 1930s, Biran warns that populist and nationalist movements — from the far-right to the pseudo-left — are reviving antisemitic and fascist ideologies under democratic guises. “Fascism no longer marches in uniform,” he cautions. “It hides behind slogans of freedom.”
The failure to act now, he says, would mark a moral collapse akin to Europe’s prewar paralysis. “If they miss this summit,” Biran writes, “humanity will have lost a historic moment.”
Toward a New Covenant
Biran’s appeal is already circulating in the United States, China, and the Arab world, with an Arabic edition of his new book published by Jordanian publisher Mohammad Alsharqawi.
It has been distributed in Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Lebanon, and Syria, signaling a rare cross-regional appetite for an economic path out of extremism.
“The enlightened world must unite against global terrorism and antisemitic terror,” Biran says. “History does not decide — people do. If Trump and Xi understand that, they can bring about the first true covenant of the new world.”
