Gauging the Impact of a Second Trump Presidency on U.S.-China Relations in the Middle East

A podcast episode of The China-Global South Podcast obtained from the special roundtable session of the “China and the Middle East” online seminar series, titled "Roundtable on the U.S. Elections & China’s Policies in the Middle East," organized by the ChinaMed Project – T.wai and the University of Naples "L'Orientale."

Hosted by Eric Olander of the China-Global South Project, together with ChinaMed Director Enrico Fardella and ChinaMed Head of Research Andrea Ghiselli, this episode brings together six of the world’s leading China-Mideast scholars to discuss their forecast for how Donald Trump’s re-election will impact U.S.-China relations in the region.

The conversation is divided into two parts:

Panel 1: How the arrival of a new U.S. President fits in the national strategies of regional actors and their relations with China

• Ahmed Aboudouh is the head of the China studies unit at the Emirates Policy Center and an associate fellow at the Chatham House in London.
• Gedaliah Afterman is the head of the Asia-Israel policy program at the Abba Eban Institute for Diplomacy and Foreign Relations and a lecturer at Reichman University and Tel Aviv University.
• Jonathan Fulton is an assistant professor of political science at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi and a nonresident senior fellow for the Atlantic Council’s Middle East Programs and the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative.

Panel 2: How a new US President will/might shape US-China relations in the Middle East

• Dawn Murphy is an associate professor of national security strategy at the U.S. National War College.
• Zhang Chuchu is an associate professor of international relations in the School of International Relations and Public Affairs at Fudan University in Shanghai and she is the deputy director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Fudan University.
• Mohammed Al Alsudairi is a lecturer in politics and international relations of the Arabic-speaking world at the Australian National University in Canberra.

The episode is available on Spotify and all other podcast streaming platforms.

The transcript of the episode is available on the China-Global South Project website.

The whole seminar is available on YouTube.