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China’s Rising Influence in the Middle East

China in the World

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China's Ambivalence on the Middle East

Jaya: China is interested in the Middle East, not strategic, but yet transactional. If you're looking at a transactional approach, the most important thing is that you have friends across the region to do transactions. I'm not sure if I can offer a satisfied answer judging by a very limited public resources on this subject. To mediate Palestinian-Israeli-Palestinian conflict, that would require much thorough understanding with Middle Eastern region in itself. And also has to come across as being a neutral player between the two. That has already come across as been something that China does not be considered as being neutral. So well, even though China has the intention of playing a much bigger role,

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