...Yitzhak Shichor Although studies on China’s Middle East policy frequently separate Israel from the rest of the region, Beijing has always been aware of regional contradictions and tried to navigate between the two sides it perceived as interconnected. China’s attempts to adopt a balanced...

... reached new levels. Iran is now headed by an individual who expresses the hope that Israel be wiped off the map and denies that the Holocaust ever occurred. Those are sentiments not found in civilized circles anywhere in the world. With the increasingly probable failure of the negotiations led...

..., State of Affairs (2003). Muhula: Rogue Nations, States of Concern, and Axes of Evil 77 munity.1 In the Middle East, two countries known to possess WMD are Israel and Iraq. The latter was said to have not only nuclear ambitions but also chemical and biological weapons, while...

... ridiculous, inconsistent, baseless reactionary policy. . . . Although it does not say so openly, China is pro Sadat’s agreement [sic] with Israel, pro the sacrifice of the freedom and independence of the Pal- estinian people who are demanding their homeland.26 Two years later, in January 1979...

... created an opening for actors such as China and Russia to seek realignment and establish a presence in the area. Regional actors such as Turkey, Israel, and Iran are also attempting to adjust to the changing environment. In sum, the eastern Mediterranean is a geopolitical vortex...

... rate regimes. China’s total trade surplus in 2005 stood at $102 billion, up from $32 billion in 2004.6 China’s trade surplus with the United States alone was $114.7 billion. The combined cur- rent account surplus of China and other Asian emerging economies today is about $250 billion, part...

... warned sharply against any external adventurism that might invoke an interest in Turks in the Cau- casus, Central Asia, or China and provoke the armed might of the Soviet Union against Turkey. Today, after the demise of the Soviet Union, Ataturk’s...

... for Syria Impasse,” Times of Israel, 4 August 2012, www.timesofisrael.com/china-blames-­ west-­ for-­ syria-­ impasse 10  Mediterranean Quarterly: Winter 2013 Carpenter: Tangled Web  11 tions in the international system...

... involvement in the new findings in the region, and the producer countries will be tempted by its huge market.43 China’s National Offshore Oil Corporation has demonstrated an interest in Israel’s recently discovered offshore energy findings, and the possibility of buying gas from the Israeli Tamar...

... that it was not in China’s interest to have a nuclear arms race in the Middle East or Israel bombing Iran’s nuclear facility. Either action would destabilize the region, resulting in disrupted oil shipments and higher oil prices. This might harm China’s supply of oil from Iran and its investment in the energy sector...

..., China, and the Territorial Question in South Asia Raju G. C. Thomas The nineteenth-century “great game” has taken on a new twist since 11 September 2001. The struggle over Afghanistan now has regional and global...

...- sia was not able to find its way; insecure China was preoccupied with a seri- ous challenge to its leadership and facing a succession problem; Japan remained mired in a decade-long recession from which it has yet to recover; the India-Pakistan dispute continued unabated and retained the potential...

...) as well as toward Arab countries in North Africa and the Persian Gulf. Israel now maintains com- plex economic and military ties with India and China as well as with several Central Asian republics, including the help it provides through its lobby...

... of rapprochement between Israel and some of its opponents in the Arab world, some analysts foresee a peaceful future for the region. Considering the gradual integration of Israel into the region—its evolution from a geocultural and then a geopolitical alien to a recognized regional entity—prospects...

...Giovanni B. Andornino This essay analyzes Sino-Italian relations against the background of the increasing salience of the West Asia and North Africa region in Rome’s and Beijing’s strategic calculus. As China projects westward through its New Silk Road strategy, culminating at the intersection...

... of supporting militant groups in the Middle East and of having vehement opposition to Israel. The overthrow of the shah in 1979 brought to a halt the nuclear coopera- tion between the United States and Iran and put the two countries on a colli- sion course. In November 1979, militant students had...

... of anti-globalist populist nationalism in the West threatens to cause a technology-enabled domino effect in Western countries similar to that which swept the Arab world. Russia and China seem most capable of exploiting both the end of the “Arab Spring of Nations” and the turbulence in the West...

... for a discussion of a variety of issues. Among them was the performance of China in the fi eld of human rights in the wake of the Tienanmen Square massacre. I was then serving as assistant secretary of state for human rights and humani- tarian affairs and in that capacity had come to engage the Chinese foreign...

... in the Arab and wider Islamic worlds from Morocco to the China Sea. The conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, involv- ing Lebanon’s very existence, is taking place in this zone of great contrasts between the Saudi royal family and others of vast wealth, on one extreme, and working-class districts...

..., www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32963631/ns/politics-white_house/. 54. “Obama: Israel, Palestinian Leaders, Agree to Resume Talks on Negotiations,” China View, 23 September 2009, www.lookatvietnam.com/2009/09/obama-israel-palestinian-leaders-agree-to -resume-talks-on-negotiations.html. 55. Michael D. Shear, “Obama...