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China's 'Arab Pivot' Signals the End of Non-Intervention | The Diplomat - 0 views

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  • the cutting of diplomatic ties between Iran and a handful of Sunni governments.
  • China’s growing international activities, specifically those attached to the Middle East are part and parcel to a new era of “internationalization” for China
  • China is now part of the complex geopolitical mire of the Middle East and with its increasingly dependence on oil, disengaging from the region even willingly will be a daunting task.
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  • China has been openly vocal about its interests in building ties with Middle East states, predominantly as a way to probe for opportunities to satisfy China’s burgeoning energy needs,
  • Another is the formulation and implementation of humanitarian assistance programs, which can easily act as coverage for establishing the presence of a conflict-ready military force.
  • Beijing’s presence in Syria brings it in closer alignment with Russia.
  • Beijing will need to turn to the pressing issues of how to operate now that its has vacated its longstanding positions of non-alignment and non-intervention.
  • Syria represents just one case in the broader Middle East, but is an instructive example of the complexities ahead.
  • Uyghur presence and an enduring insurgency in Syria and Iraq presents the great instability and a challenge to China’s “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) project.
  • China’s peacekeeping contributions began in the early 1990s, and troop deployments continued with significant contributions reaching nearly 2,000 troops by 2009.
  • China is standing at the epicenter of instability in the region.
  • Latent expectations of alignment by Beijing with specific Middle East states already exist, having been established decades prior to its present-day interactio
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