For more than two millennia, monarchs who ruled China proper saw their country as one of the dominant actors in the world. The concept of zhongguo—the Middle Kingdom, as China calls itself—is ...

The Middle East’s trade with China is set to eclipse the oil-rich region’s ties with their traditional Western allies midway through Donald Trump’s second term in the White House ...

Iran’s appeal to Chinese policymakers has declined with the near annihilation of its status in the Middle East. What’s next ...

But the abrupt end to the rule of the authoritarian leader so explicitly backed by Xi only last year has dealt a blow to China's diplomatic ambitions in the Middle East and exposed the limits of ...

although some analysts see opportunities in the reconstruction of the war-torn Middle Eastern country. Like many governments, China is scrambling to grasp the full ramifications of Syrian ...