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  • Enter The Dragon: China’s Growing Influence In The Middle East And North Africa

    The rise of China has dramatically transformed the global political and economic landscape. Managing China’s rise has become the paramount US foreign policy issue. From Rabat to Riyadh, US allies (and adversaries) across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have witnessed rapid growth in economic, commercial, and diplomatic ties with China. This paper follows Beijing’s trade and investment trail in the MENA region, exploring implications for diplomacy, security, and US regional policies.

  • China’s Evergreen reaffirms giant Saudi shrimp development still on

    African and Middle Eastern countries lined up to work with Evergreen, which is headquartered in Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, after it successfully built the region's largest turn-key vertically integrated shrimp and tilapia farm in Egypt.

  • China’s crude oil imports from Russia down 4%, Saudi down 30% as buying frenzy cools

    Russia and Saudi Arabia remained the top two crude oil suppliers to China in October, although arrivals from both countries plummeted from September levels as Chinese refiners put a brake on crude purchases.

  • Graphic: Saudi Arabia and Russia in tight race to become China’s top oil supplier in 2020

    China, the world’s top crude importer, is one of the few countries to have boosted purchases in 2020, as buyers made the most of low prices earlier this year, while fuel demand recovered from the second quarter along with the broader economy.

  • Commentary: Subtly, China pressures Gulf states to reduce regional tensions

    “Beijing has indeed become more concerned about the stability of Middle Eastern regimes. Its growing regional interests combined with its BRI ambitions underscore that Middle East stability, particularly in the Persian Gulf, is now a matter of strategic concern for China.”

  • China finds coronavirus on packaging of Saudi shrimp

    The western Chinese city of Lanzhou said on Saturday it had detected the new coronavirus on the packaging of a batch of shrimp imported from Saudi Arabia, as China ramps up testing of frozen foods. The Lanzhou Municipal Health Commission said in a statement on its website that it had found one positive sample on Friday on the inner packaging of imported frozen shrimp from Saudi Arabia that had passed through customs in the coastal city of Tianjin.

  • Biden’s Election Makes U.S. More Popular in Europe, Less Popular in China and Russia

    Morning Consult Political Intelligence polling conducted abroad suggests Biden’s election is already making those inroads, especially in Europe: Comparing responses gathered Oct. 3-Nov. 2 and Nov. 8-10, the United States’ net favorability — the share of people with favorable views minus unfavorable views — improved by an average of 22 percentage points among five of its European allies — France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom — with 42 percent expressing both favorable and unfavorable views in the latest tracking.

  • Saudi Aramco and China to bridge the climate gap

    The headline takeaway from the speech was Aramco’s offer to be a “bridge” between China’s current reliance on comparatively dirty fossil fuels and its stated ambition to move to a carbon neutral economy by 2060. Since the China strategy also involves doubling its economy in size by 2035, there is a big potential energy market there — for the right kind of fuel.

  • G-20 Looks to Deepen Debt Relief Drive With China’s Coordination

    Policy makers from the world’s largest economies are set to meet Friday to iron out the details of a plan for debt relief to the poorest countries battered by the Covid-19 pandemic. Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 scheduled the extraordinary meeting to deepen their work from last month and try to finalize the plan ahead of a summit by their heads of government next week. Officials from host Saudi Arabia will chair the talks.

  • Saudi Aramco Proposes Selling Gas to China to Build on Oil Ties

    Saudi Aramco wants to sell natural gas to China to help its biggest customer for oil make the transition to cleaner fuels, Chief Executive Officer Amin Nasser said. The Saudis, who have fought to remain among China’s largest crude suppliers, are also looking at options to develop and supply energy sources such as hydrogen and new kinds of chemicals to broaden their relationship with China, according to comments Nasser made on Wednesday to the China Development Forum.