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  • Saudi, UAE foreign ministers take part in GCC-China dialogue

    The discussion focused on joint relations between the GCC countries and China, and ways to enhance and develop them. China is one of the GCC’s most prominent trading partners with trade surging by ten fold — from about $16.3 billion in 2001 to about $167.7 billion in 2018 — and with the signing of the China-Gulf free trade agreement which will promote strategic cooperation and partnership.

  • Saudi Arabia May Soon Approve Experimental Covid-19 Vaccine By China’s Sinovac Biotech

    As the last two months of 2020 continue in more or less the same spirit as the months before, marked by various preventive and safety measures to curb the spread of COVID-19, from social distancing to rigorous population-wide testing, Saudi Arabia may be on the verge of returning to normalcy once again as a vaccine by China’s Sinovac Biotech awaits approval by the Saudi Food and Drug Authority. The virus has passed the third stage clinical trials and the Kingdom’s renowned King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC) has already signed an agreement with Sinovac to receive the vaccine.

  • China Guzzles Saudi Arabian Oil While Riyadh Keeps U.S. Flow Low

    Last month, the kingdom directed at least 1.8 million barrels a day of crude oil to China, the highest deliveries since a surge in buying back in April and May when prices crashed, tanker-tracking compiled by Bloomberg shows. Meanwhile, daily exports to the U.S. slumped to a paltry 97,000 barrels.

  • Australia no longer sending Navy to the Middle East, shifts focus to Asia-Pacific, China

    That means around 30 years of Australian maritime operations in the Middle East — largely focussed on counter-terrorism and counter-piracy operations — will soon come to an end. In a statement, Senator Reynolds said the Government's priorities had shifted.

  • Perspective: As the US Slumps Away, China Subsumes African Security Arrangements

    In 1999, two Chinese People’s Liberation Army colonels wrote Unrestricted Warfare, a book on the military strategy needed to defeat a technologically superior adversary like the United States. The critical insight was that the global infrastructure of U.S. dominance could be infiltrated and gradually converted into what they called “new concept weapons” against U.S. power. In this model of warfare, as China rose, Great Power competition would not take place, as the U.S. would simply fail to compete.

  • China, Russia and Saudi Arabia set to join UN human rights council

    Donald Trump withdrew the US from the council two years ago, which campaigners say has strengthened the authoritarian view that human rights should be measured through the prism of economics as opposed to individual freedom. Although human rights groups are often critical of the council, they say it provides a rare platform for NGOs to directly confront repressive regimes.

  • China’s Building Mega Refineries Just as Fuel Demand Stalls

    At least four projects with about 1.4 million barrels a day of crude-processing capacity, more than all refineries in the U.K. combined, are under construction. That’s after the country already added 1 million barrels since the start of 2019. All that capacity will add more petroleum products and plastics just as China National Petroleum Corp. sees fuel demand peaking in 2025 as electric vehicles sap consumption.

  • New Silk Roads: The U.A.E.’s Careful Balance of its Business, Trade, and Investment Relationship with China

    For its part, the U.A.E. is studiously trying to navigate the shoals of the great power competition between the U.S. and China. This report attempts to draw out the key highlights of the history of the U.A.E. trade and investment relationship with China, while also demonstrating that the U.A.E. still sees the U.S. as its most important strategic partner even as the economic relationship with China broadens.

  • U.S. Boosts Crude Sales to China, Forcing Saudis to Find Other Markets

    The U.S. is quickly ramping up oil sales to China, the world’s biggest importer, forcing traditional suppliers in the Mideast to look for new markets or hold on to their crude in an already oversupplied world. The U.S. accounted for 7% of Chinese crude imports through mid-September, according to London-based market intelligence firm Vortexa Ltd—up from 0.4% in January. Meanwhile, market share for Saudi Arabia, China’s biggest traditional supplier, fell to 15% from 19% in the same period. Based on recent tanker data, U.S. exports to China are expected to reach as much as 700,000 barrels a day at the end of October, forecasts Virginie Bahnik, a senior analyst at Geneva-based Petro-Logistics SA.

  • UN General Assembly: US-China tensions flare over coronavirus

    The new format meant some of the geopolitical theatre normally on offer at the key UN meeting was absent. Each country was represented by a single delegate and there was little opportunity for one nation to rebut another.