Abstract
The third term of President Xi Jinping has intensified the efforts of positioning China as a global power. China has not only re-designed its foreign behavior in terms of major power relations, but also it has established its involvement in other regions as a great power engagement.
Recently, China strategized its relations with the Middle East by projecting itself as a trusted great power and global peace broker. It has been actively mediating between regional powers to showcase a more responsible global role in stabilizing the Middle East.
However, previous great powers’ intervention in the region faced several difficulties due to the geopolitical complexity of the Middle East as its geopolitical landscape is influenced by regional and other major powers. Subsequently, maintaining a stable role and growing global influence of China in the region may not be perceived positively.
This paper examines the recent Chinese role in the Middle East as a global power, from a geopolitical perspective. It evaluates how the aimed role is faced with several geopolitical opportunities and limitations.
China’s geopolitical engagement in the Middle East is subject to adaptation by the regional changing power dynamics. The paper brings in a new perspective of understanding global powers’ relations with other regions, through which global powers’ influence is limited to few means of engagement, such as cooperation and joint geopolitical alignments.
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Najla Alzarooni, Trends Research and Advisory, United Arab Emirates
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