ChinaMED Archive

In December 2019, it was the articles published by media in Italy, Iran, Syria, and Iraq that captured our attention as it was revealed both how important events impacted China’s image in those countries, as well as new details regarding the cooperation between them and China. We begin our analysis with a series of letters published in the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera, one in late...

November was a hot month for the debate on China in Italy. The trigger was the statement released by the Chinese embassy in Rome regarding the videoconference held on November 28, 2019 at the Italian Senate. Although the Chinese embassy warned “some Italian politicians” against giving space to Joshua Wong, a number of politicians from different political parties were present at the...

Media from the wider Mediterranean region covers meetings between Chinese and local officials. Among them, the comments written by Nozad Hasan for the Iraqi newspaper al-Zaman is the most interesting one. As noted in the previous issue of the ChinaMed Bulletin, many commentators expressed doubts about the usefulness of the visit of the Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi to Beijing in...

This issue of the ChinaMed Observer/Bulletin presents to you some extremely interesting commentaries from Syria and Iran that offer a unique perspective into how the debate on China has been developing in those two countries. The other articles that the researchers of the ChinaMed team have discovered this month continue to highlight some of the patterns that we have already identified in...

Rumors regarding the decreasing influence of John Bolton, the American Assistant to the President of National Security Affairs, continue to circulate as the Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, flew to Beijing after a surprise visit to Biarritz—where French President Macron was hosting the G7 meeting. In light of this, the interest of Chinese scholars in the evolution of...