ChinaMED Archive

In this issue of the ChinaMed Observer, we cannot but pay great attention to how the discussion on the yet-to-be-finalized agreement between China and Iran has evolved in the Iranian media. Other important issues that we found in the media published in the wider Mediterranean region include the discussion on how to balance the relations between the West and China in Lebanon, Sino-French...

As cases of COVID-19 have increased, the pandemic has accordingly become the main topic of discussion in the media of the wider Mediterranean region as many are worried about the health and economic damages that it will cause. Indeed, regardless of the geographical position, there has emerged a region-wide consensus that the pandemic broke out in a moment of extreme social and economic...

In the first month of 2020, Mediterranean media published a number of extremely interesting articles. The coverage of China’s activities and relations with Mediterranean countries was, somehow surprisingly, rather positive. This is especially the case in Israel. At the same time, we found detailed commentaries on the oil-for-reconstruction agreement signed by the Chinese and Iraqi government in...

In the context of the relations between China and the wider Mediterranean region, Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring was the most debated topic by Chinese scholars and commentators in October.Operation Peace Spring began on October 9, shortly after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had a phone call with United States President Donald Trump about plans for a military operation against...

Although we found a number of interesting news, there were not many commentaries among the reports published by Mediterranean media. One important exception was an article written by Professor Yahia H. Zoubir for Confluences Méditerranée, a French journal that focuses on Mediterranean issues. Prof. Zoubir’s looks at the relations between China and the Maghreb countries. As consistent with...