China’s Strategic Development and Foreign Policy in the Middle East in the Second Decade of 21st Century: The Whys and the Wherefores

Document Type : Research

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Economic and Political science, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor in Political Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Farabi University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

China’s global role and its influence on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are growig steadily. Therefore, the matter is that why China pays attention to MENA how this region can help them extend its strenghth. By the open-ended conflicts embedded into the region from the outset of the Ottoman Empire collapsed at the second decade of last century shows that there is no room to salve for them and the interest involving of the Western countries into the region highly volatile them indeed. Declaring the US new strategy pivots on the Far East provides China with proper situation to come into the region by virtue of power vacuumed. The main question is that why and how China takes part into the MENA. As ever-growing needs energy, being a bridge between the East-West and the need to receive the new high Western technologies from Israel are the reason why China is interested in the MENA. It is tried to foster the political stability, make offer to humanitarian aids to the crisis-engaged countries and to copy with the terrorism in order to manage opposite issues. The paper tries to explain the Chinese foreign policy behavior into the MENA by what it brings in its strategic and foreign policy conduct development.

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