Research & Policy Papers

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…