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China, COP28 Post Mixed Progress in Curbing Climate Change

This week in Dubai, after two weeks of negotiations among representatives from almost 200 countries, the COP28 climate summit closed on a “historic” note: an agreement that calls for “transitioning away” from fossil fuels in...

Beijing Steers “Tricky Path” With Iran

With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington on Monday and warning of a shrinking window for diplomacy with Iran over its nuclear program, Princeton University’s...

China Makes Friends in the Gulf – Julian Madsen

From Asia Sentinel: Quietly adroit diplomatic moves shore up China’s energy needs As the United States has stumbled from crisis to crisis in the Middle East earning a reputation for war mongering and callousness, China has quietly but rapidly been widening and extending its links, becoming a new player and substantially upgrading economic ties, especially […]

China Brief: China and the Middle East

The Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief has published a special issue on China and the Middle East. From the Editor: Jamestown is proud to present this special issue of China Brief analyzing China’s deepening ties to the Middle East. In recent years, Beijing has looked to the Gulf region to meet its soaring energy demand. This […]

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