Home pagePress CenterIn the Media A book by Jon Alterman, director of the CSIS Middle East Program, The Vital Triangle: China, the United State, and the Middle East, was cited by a commentary in the Washington Times, "Chinese Dragon in Mideast Politics."
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A book by Jon Alterman, director of the CSIS Middle East Program, The Vital Triangle: China, the United State, and the Middle East, was cited by a commentary in the Washington Times, "Chinese Dragon in Mideast Politics."
As Jon B. Alterman and John W. Carver described it in their new book, "The Vital Triangle: China, the United States and the Middle East," the relationship between China and Saudi Arabia for example, is simple: "uncomplicated by either country's sense of its global role or its global responsibility. Saudi Arabia has gas and oil; China needs gas and oil. On that basis, agreements were made."
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