How Persian Gulf Countries Are Responding to the U.S.-China Rivalry

For much of the past thirty years, since the end of the Cold War, the United States has been largely unrivaled in its power in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf. Today, that is no longer the case as the U.S. faces new challenges both from regional powers like Iran and Saudi Arabia as well as international competitors, including China and Russia.
This transition to multipolarity is transforming the region and served as the thesis of a special edition of the academic journal Middle East Policy that came out earlier this year.
Three of the journal's editors on this project, Andrea Ghiselli from Fudan University in Shanghai, University of Naples China scholar Enrico Fardella, and Durham University international relations professor Anoushiravan Ehteshami, join Eric to discuss how the different countries in the region are adapting to the Sino-U.S. rivalry.
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Superb! Thank you.

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This podcast should be called US-China Global South podcast.

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Why?

[@kariukidennis1542]

@@chinaglobalsouth you talk about the US just as much as China.

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@@chinaglobalsouthTo be more accurate you should just rename it as the global south project. The name is a bit misleading as the assumption is that this is about how China and the global south is interacting.

[@EricOlander]

@@kariukidennis1542a lot of the geopolitics today are framed by the great power competition between the U.S. and China that is playing out in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, which is why our discussion often reverts back to the U.S. I think if you browse through our 1,000+ show archive you will find plenty about China as that is the primary focus of our coverage. - Eric

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@@EricOlanderTotally agree that a lot of relationships are affected by China U.S. rivalry but that depends on what sort of info you want to present if you are talking about China global south relationships you do not really need U.S. western perspective but rather the effects of U.S and western actions.