China Daily | 2018-07-09
China and Arab states set to shine together China Daily | Updated: 2018-07-09 08:06 Editor's Note: The eighth Ministerial Meeting of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum will be held in Beijing on Tuesday. How can China and the Arab states strengthen cooperation? Four experts share their views on the issue with China Daily's Liu Jianna. Excerpts follow:
Sino-Arab relations not only about oil
Li Weijian, a senior fellow at the Center for West Asian and
African Studies and Institute for Foreign Policy Studies, Shanghai
Institutes for International Studies
It's a misconception that Sino-Arab cooperation is only about oil. As
a matter of fact, only a few, such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, of the
22 Arab countries and regions export oil to China. The importance of oil
in Sino-Arab relations has relatively declined in recent years, because
the global energy market has changed from a seller's market to a
buyer's market and China has diversified its energy imports.
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