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June 8, 2020

How Coronavirus Will Affect China’s Growing Involvement in the Middle East

Beijing might not lose much, and could even gain.

Since 2013, a major plank of Beijing’s foreign policy has been the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which aims to create a network of highways, railways, fuel pipelines, ports, and improved border crossings that would facilitate trade between China and the rest of Asia and, in turn, connect Asia to Europe and the Horn of Africa. The Middle East, by virtue of its location and its richness in fossil fuels, plays a key role in the initiative. But the COVID-19 epidemic has left many governments wary of entanglement with China, out of concern over both further public-health problems and American pressure. Mordechai Chaziza analyzes the possible consequences:

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