ChinaMED Observer

The ChinaMed Observer collects the analyses of the most interesting articles on the Sino-Mediterranean relation published by Chinese and Mediterranean media every month.
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July 2019

China looks at the Mediterranean Region

As tensions in the Strait of Hormuz and between Iran and the United States continue, Iran and American policy in the Middle East, unsurprisingly, received significant attention in Chinese media. Overall, Chinese commentators remain skeptical about the break out of a war between Washington and Tehran, although they do acknowledge that...

June 2019

China looks at the Mediterranean Region

The economic element of the Trump administration’s “Deal of the Century,” which was unveiled at the “Peace to Prosperity” workshop in Manama on June 25-26, did not convince Chinese commentators even before Donald Trump’s adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner went to Bahrain. “Since the ‘Deal of the Century’ clearly deviates from the ‘two-state solution’ recognized by the international community...

April 2019

China looks at the Mediterranean Region

Chaos reigns in the Mediterranean region and that, according to Chinese commentators, provides some opportunity and many more challenges. Greece joining the cooperation platform between Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) is surely a piece of positive news for China. However, the worsening of the relations between Iran and the United States continues to trouble Chinese observers and...

December 2017

The Mediterranean Region looks at China

While diplomatic issues were at the center of articles published by the Chinese media, their Mediterranean counterparts focused heavily on economic issues. To be sure, only the Algerian Djazairess published a diplomacy-related article praising China's position on the status of Jerusalem.Iran is pushing to expand energy cooperation within the financial domain...

October 2017

China looks at the Mediterranean Region

In October, Chinese media paid great attention to the apparent change of the geopolitical landscape of the region. This fact was highlighted during the launch of the new Annual Report on Development in the Middle East (2016-2017), whose main theme was "The Middle East in the Post-American Era." The scholars of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) argued that...

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