The security challenges for China in the troubled region are mounting.
By Andrea Ghiselli
THE DIPLOMAT - May 07, 2015
The upheaval inside the Muslim world since the beginning of the Arab
Spring and now with the Islamic State in Syria, Iraq, the war in Yemen,
and its consequences are difficult phenomena to understand. This article
provides a brief review of the two security challenges that China has
to face in the Middle East.
The first one is related to the well-known “go global” trend
that began at the beginning of this century and that touches almost all
sectors of the Chinese economy. Much ink has been spilled analyzing the
repercussions of the war Libya for Chinese investments and the Chinese
attitude towards risk-management and risk-prevention in volatile
countries. Briefly, China learned a lesson and has henceforth acted
according to its economic, military and diplomatic capabilities to
prevent “another Libya.” After the massive evacuation of some 30,000
Chinese citizens and the loss of assets and investments worth several
billion dollars, China’s diplomacy has focused on the risk-prevention
side.
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