China’s Relationship with the Middle East: A Conversation with Dr. Jon B. Alterman
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Do Some Countries Prioritize Their Relationships With China?
Iran does about 30 % of its total trade with china, and that's partly because a lot of countries won't trade with uran. But the flip side, uran represents us in one % of chinese global trade. Iran is deeply, deeply reliant on china, but china in no way is reliant on iran. And so you have this incredible disparity. I think china is is much more creative in its relationship with iranit partly has used it to get discount on oil from soudie arabia. They need to pursue a relation with china and and china uses that to their advantage serve. On the other side of the spectrum, you
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