ChinaMED Archive

As in the past edition of the ChinaMed Bulletin/Observer, the events in the southern and, especially, northern parts of the wider Mediterranean region continue being the main subject of attention for Chinese commentators. Therefore, we open this issue discussing an analysis published by Xinhua’s Globe about Italy and, then, we look at how Chinese experts analyzed the potential for investments...

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...

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...

As tensions in the Strait of Hormuz and between Iran and the United States continue, Iran and American policy in the Middle East, unsurprisingly, received significant attention in Chinese media. Overall, Chinese commentators remain skeptical about the break out of a war between Washington and Tehran, although they do acknowledge that...