Posted : 2021-01-28 16:32
Updated : 2021-01-28 19:58
This is the last of a two-part article written by Dr. James M. Dorsey, a Middle East expert, about the rivalry in the Middle East between the U.S. and China. ― ED.
By Dr. James M. Dorsey
China's conflict management diplomacy may not go down well with the Gulf Arabs, notably Saudi Arabia, judging by what for Saudi media was a blunt and rare recent critique of the People's Republic.
In a game of shadow-boxing in which intellectuals and journalists front for officials who prefer the luxury of plausible deniability, Saudi Arabia responded bluntly in a column authored by Baria Alamuddin, a Lebanese journalist who regularly writes columns for Saudi media.