Unraveling China’s Plans for the Middle East

Chris, Melanie, and Zack discuss the nature and extent of China’s
engagement in the Middle East. Should the United States be
concerned about China’s growing involvement in Middle Eastern
affairs? If so, what can and should be done about it? Perhaps
just as importantly, what should not be done? Grievances for
those who dreamed up the Gaza Pier debacle, Sen. Roger Wicker for
his supposed “generational” commitment to growing the Pentagon’s
budget, and for Canadian parliamentarians who are just a little
bit too close to nefarious foreign actors (“semi-witting”
accomplices?). Attapeople to the Philippines’s President Bongbong
Marcos and to the 12 jurors in Manhattan.


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