https://www.scmp.com/rss/501996/feed Sam Sasan Shoamanesh is co-founder and vice-president of the Institute for 21st Century Questions, and managing editor of Global Brief magazine. This article is a modified version of the original published in Global Brief en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com With the war drums beating again in West Asia – this time in the Persian Gulf towards the shores of Iran – another catastrophe is in the making. War with Iran, as my colleague Irvin Studin of Global Brief recently observed, “would further radicalise America, collapse the European Union outright through unprecedented refugee flows, and risk a kinetic clash between the United States and Russia”. There is also a Chinese dimension to this looming threat. China and Iran enjoy age-old amicable... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/article/3025498/west-asian-nations-cannot-wish-away-their-neighbours-they-must-take?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/article/3025498/west-asian-nations-cannot-wish-away-their-neighbours-they-must-take?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 03 Sep 2019 07:48:40 +0000