Following up on Eric’s earlier post, we dove into our various hypotheses on what drives China’s Middle East policies (which obviously is oil) and discussed a few future scenarios that explore how China will manage its relationships across this unstable, yet highly important, region.

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Key Issues:

- China’s balancing of its relationship with Isreal and other countries

- China’s management of its internal Muslim population

- China’s reaction to nationalist cries to protect overseas workers

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