“During this year’s Iran war, China again declined to use its considerable leverage to keep the Iranians from attacking China’s Gulf partners—a move that especially concerned Saudi Arabia, which felt that Beijing should come to its defense because China was the guarantor of its reconciliation with Tehran.”
Mohammed Alsudairi (Australian National University & King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies), Andrea Ghiselli (T.wai & University of Exeter) and Aaron Glasserman (Columbia University) are authors of the article “The Gulf’s China Problem” for Foreign Affairs.
Research Fellow
Andrea Ghiselli is a non-resident Research Fellow at T.wai, and serves as the Head of Research of the ChinaMed Project. He is also a Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Exeter.
“During this year’s Iran war, China again declined to use its considerable leverage to keep the Iranians from attacking China’s Gulf partners—a move that... Read More
