China’s Arab March
At the recent China-Arab States Cooperation Forum, President Xi Jinping called upon his Arab counterparts to upgrade their strategic relationships with China. This reflects China’s broader effort to rebalance its strategic focus westward, especially toward the Arab world.
BEIJING – The growing bloodshed in Iraq and Syria is being watched as keenly in China as anywhere else in the world. Indeed, the greater Middle East is becoming an ever greater focus of Chinese foreign policy.