On the Southwest Silk Road: China and the Arab World
On the Southwest Silk Road: China and the Arab World

Summary/Abstract: In 2016, President Xi Jinping undertook state visits to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Iran. These visits were notable for their historical significance, for deepening traditional friendship, for pursuing win-win cooperation, for advancing regional reconciliation, and for promoting peace and development. They launched a decade of dynamic activities: first, to uphold traditional friendship and upgrade 21st-century political relations; second, to jointly broaden cooperation and communication channels during the geocommunication age along the time-honored Southwest Silk Road ‘Arrow’; third, to carry forward mutual learning among and understanding of civilizations and consolidate public opinion support, serving as a global communication model; fourth, to announce the dialogic nature of Chinese Middle East policy, as a successful application of Beijing’s newest global initiatives – GDI, GSI and GCI, seeking to forge an increasingly comprehensive vision of a new global governance system. This research relies primarily on a descriptive approach to the post-globalized world, understood as the post-Cold War era.

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