ChinaMED Archive

The ChinaMed Archive contains our collection of Chinese and Mediterranean media analyses published between November 2017 and July 2023.

July 2020

The Mediterranean Region looks at China

We found a number of very interesting articles published by the media of the wider Mediterranean region that provide important insights into some of the most interesting aspects of China’s relations with the countries there. Though we selected articles published by the media of a number of countries for this month’s review, the most interesting ones were those from Iran and Lebanon.

June 2020

The Mediterranean Region looks at China

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...

May 2020

The Mediterranean Region looks at China

This month, our review of the media reports published in the wider Mediterranean region focuses on the debate surrounding the “oil-for-reconstruction” agreement between Iraq and China; Sino-French competition in Morocco, Algeria, and Lebanon; the Iranian discussion about the relations with China; and continuing criticism from a number of countries about how China handled the Covid-19 outbreak...

April 2020

The Mediterranean Region looks at China

April was a month of reckoning as media across the wider Mediterranean region published polls and commentaries that helped shed light on how the public reacted to Beijing’s aid campaign and to Washington’s attempt to reshape the COVID-19 narrative with an emphasis on Chinese responsibility. In Southern Europe, it seems that Italy was the only country where Chinese so-called “mask diplomacy”...

July 2019

China looks at the Mediterranean Region

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...

June 2019

China looks at the Mediterranean Region

The economic element of the Trump administration’s “Deal of the Century,” which was unveiled at the “Peace to Prosperity” workshop in Manama on June 25-26, did not convince Chinese commentators even before Donald Trump’s adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner went to Bahrain. “Since the ‘Deal of the Century’ clearly deviates from the ‘two-state solution’ recognized by the international community...

May 2019

China looks at the Mediterranean Region

We begin our monthly review of Chinese articles and commentaries on the situation in the Mediterranean region with a short commentary penned by Song Wei, an Associate Researcher with the Ministry of Commerce, on the opportunities and challenges that Chinese companies can find in Italy. [1] According to Song, Italy’s location at the center of the Mediterranean Sea and, at the same time...

April 2019

China looks at the Mediterranean Region

Chaos reigns in the Mediterranean region and that, according to Chinese commentators, provides some opportunity and many more challenges. Greece joining the cooperation platform between Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) is surely a piece of positive news for China. However, the worsening of the relations between Iran and the United States continues to trouble Chinese observers and...

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Published with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation pursuant to art. 23-bis of Presidential Decree 18/1967. The views expressed in this publication are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

Published with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation pursuant to art. 23-bis of Presidential Decree 18/1967. The views expressed in this publication are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

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