Middle East

Financing updates to Iran’s Persian Gulf port would significantly strengthen China’s position in the Middle East.

The best of China this week. Has Xi’s anti-graft campaign landed a “tiger?” Lao She’s art collection auctioned off.

David Cohen offers possible reasons behind China’s efforts at Middle East peace.

Chinese and U.S. leaders have both said they want to create a new type of relationship. The Middle East is the perfect place to start.

Zachary Keck explains that “shuttle diplomacy of the kind Kissinger undertook belongs to the dustbin of history.”

While China’s oil dealings with countries like Iran and Sudan receive global attention, its budding relationship with Iraq may turn out to be the most important.

Ian Bremmer talks America’s new role in Asia, how conflict in the Middle East could challenge such a role, and China’s future.

“There is a point at which non-interference becomes complicity in mass murder.”

No longer guided by zero-sum calculations or outdated ideologies, can India befriend both rivals?

Assad’s fall will not be the disaster for Tehran that many envision. The Islamic Republic has adapted before and will do so again.

Heavily dependent on oil from the Middle East, Japan has been keen to encourage stability. But there are limits to what Japan’s soft power push can do in the region.

The Indian Ocean archipelago of Socotra is often described as an alien-looking paradise on earth. It also happens to be of immense strategic value to the U.S. and Asian nations.