Chinese President Xi Jinping and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman shake hands in Beijing on March 16, 2017, after signing 14 agreements on economic cooperation worth US$65 billion. Photo: Kyodo Chinese President Xi Jinping and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman shake hands in Beijing on March 16, 2017, after signing 14 agreements on economic cooperation worth US$65 billion. Photo: Kyodo
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman shake hands in Beijing on March 16, 2017, after signing 14 agreements on economic cooperation worth US$65 billion. Photo: Kyodo

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China rewrites the rules on how to rise in influence in the Middle East

Daniel Wagner writes that Beijing, by increasing its oil consumption and maintaining an open posture towards competing actors in the region while letting the US handle the security burden, has quietly made itself into a massive player in the region

Topic |   Middle East
Daniel Wagner
Daniel Wagner

Updated: 9:29am, 1 Feb, 2018

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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman shake hands in Beijing on March 16, 2017, after signing 14 agreements on economic cooperation worth US$65 billion. Photo: Kyodo Chinese President Xi Jinping and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman shake hands in Beijing on March 16, 2017, after signing 14 agreements on economic cooperation worth US$65 billion. Photo: Kyodo
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman shake hands in Beijing on March 16, 2017, after signing 14 agreements on economic cooperation worth US$65 billion. Photo: Kyodo
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