Research Fellow
“I think there was this idea that China should do more in the Middle East, but it seems like the Chinese experts are not able to spell out what “something else” is. There was no appetite for developing any regional partner or for building a relationship like the one that the United States has with Israel. There was no real appetite for military intervention. And so, at the end of the day, many were saying “we should do more, but we’re not sure about what we should do”.”
