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 and the successful implementation of the BRI March 25, 2020 0 Image credit: Cairo by Simona Scolari/Flickr; licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Written by Mordechai Chaziza. In recent years, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has significantly…
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…
Belt and Road Initiative China’s involvement in the Levant: It’s the economy after all March 20, 2020 0 Image credit: Suez Canal (2007-06-345) by Vyacheslav Argenberg/Flickr; licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Yoram Evron. The Levant – a sub-region of the Middle East consisting…
China The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on relations between China and the Middle East March 17, 2020 0 Image credit: Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 by NIAID/Flickr; licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Zi Yang. Since its emergence in China in December 2019, COVID-19 has…
China Sino-Iranian Relations: A multidimensional partnership June 14, 2018 0 Written by John Calabrese. On May 8, U.S. President Donald Trump announced his decision to “exit the Iran deal”. Three days later, a new freight train…
China China’s deals with Saudi Arabia are signs of a profitable new relationship November 9, 2017 0 Written by Timo A Kivimäki. The Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli’s visit to Saudi Arabia in the summer of 2017 was a deal maker. There…
China China and Qatar’s Stadium Diplomacy August 8, 2017 0 Written by Simon Chadwick. Football’s global centre of gravity is shifting eastwards as countries in Asia strategically focus on the sport’s development. As I’ve previously noted,…
International Relations Is China the Persian Gulf’s Future Outside Power? June 24, 2015 0 By Philip Gater-Smith. Security and oil have typically been the two dominant themes of international coverage of the Middle East. The news in recent months has hardly…
China-Middle East What drives China’s interest in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? February 25, 2015 0 Written by Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat. In recent years, China has shown greater interest in exerting influence in the Middle East. In mid 2013, for example, Beijing…
