ChinaMED Archive

Although the accusations from Turkey's Foreign Ministry against China regarding the treatment of Muslim citizens in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR) caught much attention in the West, media in North Africa and the Middle East were rather quiet. At the same time, the debate in Italy about how the country should approach closer cooperation with China has begun to heat up...

While diplomatic issues were at the center of articles published by the Chinese media, their Mediterranean counterparts focused heavily on economic issues. To be sure, only the Algerian Djazairess published a diplomacy-related article praising China's position on the status of Jerusalem.Iran is pushing to expand energy cooperation within the financial domain...

The Mediterranean media did not write much about China in April. Nonetheless, it is important to note that China is, probably unwillingly, becoming intertwined in the commercial tensions resulting from the spat between Yemen, Djibouti, and the UAE over the Doraleh and Aden container terminals. These tensions started after the Yemeni and Djiboutian authorities terminated...

One of the main changes we see in July’s Mediterranean media is that the (potential) effects of the China-United States trade war and, more generally, the worsening of the relations between the two countries, has started to be discussed in relation to China’s role in the wider Mediterranean region. In comparison, it is important to note that Russia never made it into articles concerning...

In February, the Mediterranean media focused on the issue of maintaining a balanced trade relationship with China. Even when compared to the low attention paid to more political aspects of the Chinese presence in the region, economic preoccupations clearly dominated this month's issue of the Bulletin. The only exception is...