Category: Diplomacy

How one perceives the proposed China-Iran partnership agreement, which is reportedly close to completion, likely depends on where you're from and how you regard both these regional powers. In exchange for greater access to Iran's financial services, telecommunications, and infrastructure market, ...

Jonathan Fulton is an assistant professor at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at The Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C., is one of the world's leading experts on the Chinese in the Persian Gulf/Middle East regions.  Fulton has ...

African leaders have steadfastly tried to avoid being sucked into the increasingly bitter stand-off between the United States and China, opting instead to try and retain constructive ties with both countries. India, too, for years tried to maintain non-alignment amidst regional and global powers but now that ...

Not surprisingly, reaction in the United States to the proposed China-Iran deal has been overwhelmingly negative and it has largely been framed as a looming national security threat. Nikki Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a prominent conservative foreign policy commentator, summed up ...

Chinese scholars are closely monitoring the deteriorating situation in Libya with an eye on whether instability there will spread to other countries in North Africa, particularly Algeria and Sudan. Sun Xia from the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences wondered whether the twin forces of declining oil prices ...

Historically, foreign aid projects have long been criticized for creating dependency, prompting some critics to argue that normative foreign aid should be rejected by African recipients altogether for the seemingly inevitable outcomes of increased corruption and dependency. As more than 80% ...

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 ...

There's growing unease in the international donor community that China doesn't seem aligned with other major creditors on how to resolve the increasingly serious debt crisis in Africa and other developing regions. World Bank President David Malpass hinted at simmering frustrations when he called ...

In a Q&A session broadcast on Twitter, China's influential ambassador to the United Kingdom, Liu Xiaoming, admitted publicly that Beijing prefers to work with borrowers bilaterally rather than through multilateral organizations because it's "more effective."

The UK's decision to remove Huawei equipment from its new 5G network marks a significant win for the United States, who's been lobbying governments for years to stop using the Chinese telecom company's gear.  The U.S. alleges, so far without evidence, ...

News that China and Iran were in late-stage talks to finalize a 25-year, $400 billion deal generated an alarming response in the U.S. and Europe, prompting widespread concern that a new, enhanced partnership between these two countries would mark a dramatic challenge to United States hegemony and ...

Taiwan's recent effort to revive its diplomatic presence in Africa by signing an agreement with the self-declared state of Somaliland to set up representative offices in each other's territories sparked an immediate wave of predictable responses. China and Somalia denounced the ...