Belt and Road Initiative China manoeuvres to protect its interests while keeping its hands clean March 26, 2020 0 Image credit: Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptors by Robert Sullivan/Flickr; licence: Public Domain Mark 1.0. Written by James M. Dorsey. The question is not if, but…
Belt and Road Initiative China’s partnership diplomacy in the Middle East March 24, 2020 0 Image credit: COP21_151208c-0651 by Mark Dixon/Flickr; licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Degang Sun. Two decades into the twenty-first century, we can see how the…
China The U.S. military presence in the Middle East and Central Asia May 4, 2018 0 Written by Mahmoud Ghafouri and Mohammad Davand. The purpose of this article is to describe the extensive military build-up of the United States in these regions during…
China China’s approach to the Gulf Dispute May 3, 2018 0 Written by Jonathan Fulton. As the dispute between Qatar and the Anti-Terror Quartet (ATQ) of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, and Egypt nears…
Belt and Road Initiative China-Oman relations: the Indian Ocean dilemma May 2, 2018 0 Written by Fred H. Lawson. Oman tends to be overshadowed by more assertive member-states of the Gulf Co-operation Council, most notably Saudi Arabia, Qatar and…
China China in the Persian Gulf: A delicate balance in global security May 1, 2018 0 Written by Yang Jiang and Lars Erslev Andersen. The Persian Gulf region has since the 19th century been one of the most strategically important regions…
China Geopolitics of energy: China and the Middle East April 30, 2018 1 Written by Gawdat Bahgat. In the last few decades, the People’s Republic of China has had one of the fastest growing economies in the world.…