BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,209, July 25, 2023
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: China has become a major player in the MENA region, and its soft power projection strategy plays a key role. Confucius Institutes are a highly visible manifestation of this …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,676, August 4, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Ever since the launch of the BRI in 2013, Beijing has shown great interest in the Maghreb region as an entry point to European and African markets. Beijing has …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,654, June 21, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Tehran in January 2016 laid the foundations for the Iran-China comprehensive strategic partnership agreement. The two countries are now said to be in …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,604, June 12, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The successful implementation of China’s BRI strategy will largely depend on its ability to overcome the Middle East’s weighty political, economic, religious, cultural, and security problems.
The Middle East …
Mideast Security and Policy Studies Paper #174
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Middle East was already plagued by war, famine, and wholesale death in the form of multiple civil wars when the outbreak of Covid-19, a novel coronavirus, added pestilence to the …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,473, March 8, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In recent years, the People’s Republic of China has significantly increased its economic and diplomatic engagement with the Middle East. Most of Beijing’s investment in the region focuses on …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,340, November 11, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Jerusalem and Beijing have cultivated a flourishing economic relationship in recent years, but that bond is limited by the tension it has engendered with a Washington wary of China’s …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,303, October 2, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Relations between Iran and China go as far back as the ancient Silk Road – but despite the recent establishment of a formal comprehensive strategic partnership between the two, …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,229, July 17, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The rise of the People’s Republic of China over the past two decades has significantly changed the global economy. This development represents an opportunity for the Gulf States as …
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 996, November 5, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In a sign of the importance Beijing assigns to ties with Jerusalem, China’s powerful VP, Wang Qishan, made a visit to Israel last week. He is the highest-level Chinese …
