A China Card for the Middle East
The list of crises plaguing the Middle East is growing, and none of the usual actors is able or willing to play a constructive role. What the region needs is a new framework for diplomacy – one with the strong backing of a new, non-Western mediator.
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PARIS – The list of crises plaguing the Middle East is growing. In Yemen, a civil war rages amid an uncontrollable cholera epidemic. In Jerusalem, religious violence is intensifying, while in parts of Iraq and Syria, sectarian warfare shows no signs of abating. Most ominously, a new level of antagonism between Saudi Arabia and Iran suggests that a direct confrontation between the leading powers of Sunni and Shia Islam is no longer out of the question.