This article discusses China's lack of tradition in conflict mediation and its economic interests in the Middle East, particularly in relation to Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Michael Burleigh: ‘Unlike the US, China does not have a tradition of conflict mediation , nor the might to back it with’ . This one is said to consist of Russia, Iran , China and North Korea, notwithstanding obvious differences between, respectively, a rogue imperial state, a revolutionary Shiite theocracy, a vast Asian economy ruled by Communist tycoons, and an East Asian curiosity
To that end, in March, Beijing’s Global Security Initiative succeeded in warming relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia to the extent that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi discussed the crisis in Gaza a few days after it erupted. But the Gaza conflict has massively complicated China’s ambitions as a global peacemaker.
Neutrality in the war in Gaza will also facilitate China’s wider pitch to be the spokesman of the Global South, in line with the stance it adopted towards Ukraine . In this respect, China resembles another great power at the opposite end of Eurasia. Like China, the EU has enormous economic clout, but finds it difficult to be a global geopolitical actor.
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