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China Eyes Qatar In Its Quest To Build A New Silk Road – Analysis ( Source- Eurasia Review / Author- Giorgio Cafiero)

Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / StellerD Source- Eurasia Review Author- Giorgio Cafiero It should come as no surprise that China is making its way to Qatar, particularly with respect to the establishment of the Silk Road Initiatives. Despite China leading the initiatives, it is impossible for Beijing to do everything alone; international participation and contributions are needed. By Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat and Giorgio Cafiero* Last month at the China-Arab Cooperation Forum in Doha, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi postulated that Qatar should take part in the realization of China’s Silk Road Initiatives. Considering Qatar as a key partner to promote the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) project, which Chinese President Xi Jinping initiated in 2014, Yi said that the initiative shares common cooperative opportunities with the Qatar National Vision 2030, a future development roadmap launched by Doha in 2008. To this end, China hopes to strengthen bilateral relation

The Pitfalls to China’s Mideast Policy ( Copy Right @ The Diplomat, Author- Jeffrey Payne)

People's Liberation Army ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons/ United States DOD) Events over the past week in Iraq, where the radical group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant ( ISIS ) took control of Mosul and its surrounding environs, have drawn renewed attention to the fragility of much of the Middle East. These events also reinvigorated the debate about the continued viability of a unified Iraq, the role of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and subsequent occupation in today’s instability, and the overall strength of U.S. Mideast policy. Such  debate  is valuable, particularly in relation to U.S. foreign policy towards the Middle East moving forward. Yet, the events in Iraq have global implications and little attention has been directed towards the impact of ISIS’s advances on another nation-state with major interests in the Middle East – China. Whereas a weak and unstable Iraq will constitute a loss-of-face for the U.S., the same scenario represents a strategic im