With China replacing the United States as the world's leading energy user and net oil importer, its relations with the Middle East is becoming a major issue with global implications. Horesh and his contributors set out to analyse the implications of China's growing presence in the Middle East

Introduction / Niv Horesh 1. - 1 Sino-American Crosscurrents in the Middle East: Perceptions and Realities / Yitzhak Shichor 5. - 2 An Alternative Partner to the West? China's Growing Relations with Turkey / Zan Tao 19. - 3 A New Eurasian Embrace: Turkey Pivots East While China Marches West /...

An overview on the dilemma of "one China" : myth versus reality / Peter C.Y. Chow -- The myth of "one China" / Edward L. Dreyer -- Taiwan's colonial history and postcolonial nationalism / J. Bruce Jacobs -- On the statehood of Taiwan : a legal reappraisal / Huang-Chih Chiang and Jau-Yuan Hwang...