Category: Diplomacy
For the Western Press, Xi’s Saudi Visit is All About the United States
The China-Middle East expert Jonathan Fulton complained on Twitter this week that many editors at major Western news outlets seem to have pre-decided their framing of Xi Jinping’s visit to Saudi Arabia. Rather than focusing on what the two countries want and where they’re coming ...
Washington and Beijing have Very Different Takes On Next Week’s U.S.-Africa Summit
Preparations are ramping up for next week’s U.S.-Africa leaders’ summit. 13-15 December will see leaders from 49 countries, as well as numerous businesspeople, civil society envoys, and journalists descending on Washington DC to attend the first such event since the Obama era.
Western Calls to De-Risk African Projects Echo China’s Approach
One of the underlying factors driving Chinese business in Africa is the role of state insurers like Sinosure in reducing the risk taken on by Chinese companies. So it’s interesting to see that Western actors are slowly moving in ...
Xi Jinping Travels to Saudi Arabia For High-Profile Summits With Saudi and Arab Leaders
Chinese President Xi Jinping will arrive in Riyadh on Wednesday for a three-day visit that will include a trio of summits with Saudi Arabia's rulers and Arab leaders. Even though preparations in the Kingdom had been underway for weeks ...
$30 Billion of China-Saudi Deals to Be Signed During Xi’s Visit to the Kingdom
Chinese and Saudi Arabian officials will sign $29.62 billion worth of commercial deals this week during President Xi Jinping's three-day visit to the Kingdom. In all, some 20 agreements will be inked, according to a report published on Tuesday by the ...
Beware of the Simple Media Narratives Warns China Scholar About Xi Visit to the Mideast
Atlantic Council Senior Fellow Jonathan Fulton has some advice for journalists covering Xi Jinping's visit to Saudi Arabia: don't fall for the simple narrative that this trip is about some kind of Great Power Competition with the United States. Instead, Fulton ...
With Xi Jinping Back on the Road, Ryan Hass Reflects on Where Chinese Diplomacy Goes From Here
Now that China is beginning to relax its draconian Zero COVID policies and President Xi Jinping has emerged from three years of diplomatic hibernation, Ryan Hass, a top China scholar at the Brookings Institution, reflected in a multipart Twitter thread on Tuesday on the choices ...
The China-Arab Summit: Arab Press Highlights the Need for Economic Partnerships and Political Alliances
Arab and regional press widely focused on the China-Arab summit scheduled this week in Saudi Arabia, highlighting its importance as a “turning point in the history of Sino-Arab relations.” Several writers shared their thoughts about the significance of the summit, saying ...
African Leaders Commemorate Jiang Zemin
African heads of state, ministers, and other high-ranking officials from countries as far afield as Equatorial Guinea and Burundi visited Chinese embassies and missions on Monday to sign condolence books honoring the deceased Chinese President Jiang Zemin. ...
What’s at Play in Xi Jinping’s Upcoming Visit to Saudi Arabia?
Chinese President Xi Jinping will reportedly travel to Saudi Arabia this week for a state meeting and to attend the inaugural China-Arab Summit. This is a particularly important visit as Xi returns to in-person diplomacy because Saudi-U.S. relations are quite frosty amid wrangles over oil prices in ...
How the Global South Can Leverage the BRI and PGII: Competing and Complementary Infrastructure Initiatives
By Oyintarelado Moses and Keren Zhu Last month, the United States and the European Union launched new agreements under the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII) on the sidelines of the G20 meeting and the European Commission announced the Global Gateway’s (GG) ...
Why U.S. Diplomacy is Struggling to Compete With China in the Global South
40 countries around the world currently do not have U.S. ambassadors. The corner offices have been empty for months, even years at U.S. embassies in major regional powers like India and Saudia Arabia. Even Italy, a G7 country, ...