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China-Gulf Relations for the Period 2001-2018

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Mazin Qasim Mhalhal

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DOI:10.17265/1548-6591/2019.01.004

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University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq

ABSTRACT

China is one of the major powers and this position makes it open to various countries of the world, including the Gulf States. The China-Gulf relations have witnessed progress in various fields, but trade and energy have been the most important areas of cooperation between the two sides. The importance of researching the substance of relations between China and the Gulf States imposes itself on the size of China’s political, military, and economic, and the weight of the Gulf financial and energy. The aim of the research is to diagnose the relations between the two sides at the political and economic levels, during the period between 2001 and 2018. The research deals with a problem that is shaped by a research question: Why did China-Gulf relations between 2001 and 2018 in the way it appear? Which raises the need to answer several questions, including: What are the political relations between China and the Gulf countries? What are the economic relations between China and the Gulf countries? This problem prompts us to adopt the premise of its content: The relations between China and the Gulf have taken into consideration developments in various aspects, so we have seen remarkable growth in their economic and political exchanges since the new millennium. The relations between China and the countries of the Gulf region have tended to develop politically and economically. China has not developed unilateral relations among the countries bordering the Arabian Gulf, that is, it has not developed relations with one country or two countries of the Arabian Gulf, but to all Gulf countries. This problem and hypothesis lead us to adopt a scientific approach to dealing with the content of the research, and we adopted here the analytical approach to verify the validity of the hypothesis adopted. As for the mutual investment between the two sides, it is clear that there is Chinese activity to expand Chinese investments in this region. China invested about $2 billion in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries in 2005, and the volume of investments is expanding annually to reach about $40 billion in activities and fields, such as economic development. While the volume of Chinese investment in Iran reached about $11 billion in 2017, Iran is the first country in which China invested in early 2000 when it invested about $2 billion, and then expanded its investments later, taking advantage of the withdrawal of Western companies from the market Iran GCC investments in China widened after 2001 due to fears of protecting Gulf assets in Western countries and in the United States in particular. Gulf investors began pumping $1.3 billion in 2002. The volume of investments in the GCC countries in China reached about $39.2 billion in 2017.

KEYWORDS

China-Gulf relations, payment of China, Arab cooperation building belt and road

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Journal of US-China Public Administration, January 2019, Vol. 16, No. 1, 23-34

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