ChinaMED Archive

The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic in the region largely continues to dominate the discussion on the wider Mediterranean region among Chinese journalist and commentators (click here to read the February, March, and April issues of the ChinaMed Observer). Among the articles that promote China’s health diplomacy, we have also found interesting commentaries regarding Turkey, Jordan, Iran, and...

In April, the Mediterranean region not only receivedsignificant attention from the Chinese media, but from the Chinese government as well. Indeed, the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, Yang Jiechi, visited Kuwait and the UAE as a special envoy on behalf of President Xi Jinping. While in Kuwait...

The US and Israel were the main focus of the Chinese media in May. While the commentary pertaining to US policy was negative as usual, even Israel received criticism (a rare event in the Chinese discourse). The other articles reviewed in this issue of the Bulletin provide a more general update about the evolution of China's relations with the Mediterranean region.Both Chinese scholars, like...

While the economy has been at the center stage in previous issues of the ChinaMed Observer, much of the focus in the reporting made by the Mediterranean media in the first month of 2018 has been on politics.To begin with, Israel is still reflecting on how the US President's decision to move the American embassy to Jerusalem will impact the country and its relations with...