Andrea Ghiselli is a non-resident Research Fellow at T.wai, and serves as the Head of Research of the ChinaMed Project. He is also a Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Exeter.
This article investigates how Russian actions there are perceived in China through the analysis of the debate among Chinese foreign policy experts. Russia is seen as an opportunistic actor whose behaviour is only partially consistent with Chinese interests.
Andrea Ghiselli (T.wai & Fudan University) in his article "China and the Middle East: From Performative to Substantive Participation in Regional Affairs?" published by Manara Magazine.
[IT] The ChinaMed Report 2022 discusses the main trends in the media debates in China and in seven key countries of the wider Mediterranean – France, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Saudi Arabia, and Türkiye – on China’s role in the region.
There is often the tendency to imagine the United States and China involved in a strategic back-and-forth, launching new initiatives and implementing new approaches to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). However, the substance of the two countries’ behavior in the region and toward each other is unlikely to change in the foreseeable future.
The visit to Saudi Arabia made by the Chinese President Xi Jinping caught the attention of the media around the world. Against this background, the data collected by the researchers of the ChinaMed Project were cited by Isabella Borshoff in her article "China Moves into the Gulf" in The Wire China.
