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August 16, 2023

Washington Needs a Different Approach to Communicate the Dangers of China to Its Middle Eastern Allies

Current efforts are exacerbating the problem.

While Israel has taken important steps to address American concerns about its diplomatic and economic relations with China, other U.S. allies in the region—especially Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates—have appeared to move even closer to Beijing. Michael Singh argues that differing perspectives are part of the problem, and that Washington’s current policies are likely only to exacerbate it. In his view, both the U.S. and the Gulf states are being shortsighted:

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