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Fresh From His Africa, Indian Ocean Tours, Wang Yi Hosts Four Persian Gulf Foreign Ministers For Unprecedented Visit

by Eric Olander
File image of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and GCC Secretary-General Nayef bin Falah Al-Hajraf in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Image via the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

A delegation of four foreign ministers from Persian Gulf countries began a landmark week-long visit to Beijing on Monday for extended talks on energy issues and, possibly, a free trade agreement.

This is the first time that representatives from Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, and Bahrain have traveled to Beijing as a unified delegation to meet with Chinese officials, including Foreign Minister Wang Yi who just returned from his own week-long tour of East African and Indian Ocean states.

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