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 /...

Chinese President Xi Jinping's 'One Belt, One Road' (OBOR) vision, heralded as an attempt to revive the pre-modern Silk Route, is intended to strengthen West Asia's economic links with China through ambitious infrastructural projects. Central to this are fast-track rail links, funded by the...