ChinaMED Archive

The first half of January saw the visit to Beijing of the foreign ministers of Oman, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain and the Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Iran’s foreign minister Amir-Abdollahian, and his Turkish counterpart Cavusoglu, while Wang Yi was busy in a trip to three African countries (Kenya, Eritrea, and Comoros), all in the turn of a few weeks. These...

During the search through the media outlets of the wider Mediterranean region, we found several interesting news about the developments of China’s relations with European, Middle Eastern and North African countries, the Ethiopian crisis and more general regional and international issues.On December 1, the Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, visited Addis Ababa–thus becoming the first...

In November, one of the most interesting issues discussed by Chinese commentators is the conflict in Ethiopia and its impact on China. Beyond that, the articles published by Chinese media touched upon the developments in several countries of the wider Mediterranean region, from Turkey to Italy, from Iran to Tunisia.The conflict in Ethiopia between the Ethiopian central government and the...

We start this issue of the ChinaMed Observer with an article published by Muhammad al-Minshawy, writing for al-Jazeera, assessing the impact of China’s rising international influence on Arab countries. Al-Minshawy claims that Arabs will inevitably increase their involvement with China, especially in light of the heavy reliance of the Chinese economy on its Arab oil and gas imports and the...

We start this issue of the ChinaMed Observer with the new developments in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). On September 17,during the SCO Summit in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Iran’s permanent membership in the organization was finalized. Many Iranian politicians and experts have voiced enthusiastic opinions of this event, confident that joining such a regional organization would increase...