After Beijing brokered a normalization deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia, one American intelligence expert urged the U.S. to maintain friendly relations with 'barbarous, but long-standing allies' in the Middle East lest China fill the vacuum.
Saturday that China's role in the Iran-Saudi Arabia rapprochement shows Chinese President Xi Jinping's"ambition of offering an alternative to a U.S.-led world order."The vision Mr. Xi has laid out is one that wrests power from Washington in favor of multilateralism and so-called noninterference, a word that China uses to argue that nations should not meddle in each other's internal affairs, by criticizing human rights abuses, for example.
Pierson noted Xi's Global Security Initiative, which seeks to promote"peaceful coexistence" in a multipolar world that eschews"unilateralism, bloc confrontation, and hegemonism" like U.S. invasions and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. "The Chinese, who for years played only a secondary role in the region, have suddenly transformed themselves into the new power player."Saturday about how the"China-brokered deal upends Mideast diplomacy and challenges [the] U.S."
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