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Zayed University Assistant Professor Johnathan Fulton is seemingly on a one-man mission to try and get everyone to calm down about news of a huge $400 billion, 25-year China-Iran oil-for-infrastructure deal. The deal has sounded alarms in places like Washington, D.C. ...
Trying to Make Sense of the Proposed China-Iran Deal
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, ...
The Proposed China-Iran Deal “Isn’t a Big Deal” Says Leading China-Gulf Scholar
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 ...
The Shockwaves of a Potential China-Iran Deal Are Being Felt Far From the Gulf All the Way to South Asia
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 ...
The China-Mediterranean Observer: Trying to Make Sense of the Proposed China-Iran Deal
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 ...
Why We Should All Just Take a Breath and Ignore the Hype Surrounding the Proposed China-Iran Deal
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 ...
Why Africa’s Oil Exporters Should be Very Concerned About the Proposed China-Iran Mega-Deal
Iran and China are reportedly nearing completion of a wide-ranging oil-for-infrastructure deal that would pave the way for billions of dollars of Chinese investment in Iran's energy, telecommunications and financial service sectors in exchange for a 25-year supply of oil.
The China-Mediterranean Observer: Iraq’s Controversial Plan to Trade Oil For Infrastructure With 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 ...
China Takes on a More Prominent Role in Mideast & Gulf Politics
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi kicked off his annual tour of Africa in Cairo this week where he met with senior Egyptian leaders to discuss the growing instability in North Africa, the Mideast, and the Persian Gulf.