China’s Growing Interest in the Middle East is Anything but Benign
Beijing buys Muslim leaders’ support for repressing its own Muslim population.
September 12, 2019
China’s Growing Interest in the Middle East is Anything but Benign
Beijing buys Muslim leaders’ support for repressing its own Muslim population.
While Beijing insists officially that its rapidly growing involvement in the Middle East—arms sales, trade deals, technology-sharing agreements, and massive infrastructure projects—is purely economic and politically neutral, Ilan Berman discerns something more sinister. As an example, Berman points to the muted reactions of such Muslim rulers as Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Saudi Arabia’s Muhammad bin Salman to China’s massive and brutal persecution of the Muslim Uighurs of its northwest, noting that China has invested heavily in both Turkey and Saudi Arabia:
September 12, 2019
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