Middle East's Geopolitical Future between Beneficial West and Strategic East

At the same time as the U.S. various sources are revealing and hailing the advanced stage of the undergoing negotiations with Saudi Arabia for a security agreement, the Saudis are in China to discuss the strategic defense partnership between Riyadh and Beijing and to discuss "ways to strengthen military and defense cooperation".

Some Yemeni Houthi sources informed the Lebanese pro-Iranian Al-Akhbar newspaper that Saudis are exploring the possibility of requesting China’s mediation with the Houthis.

Meanwhile, many U.S. media outlets and analysts are still insisting that all Saudi policies, moves and agreements with China are directed at the U.S. as maneuvers or teasing to promote the relationship with the U.S or to attain its assistance in particular fields despite a very significant series of developments in terms of KSA-China relationship and the Chinese changing role in the Middle East. 

In this regard, I am wondering about the threshold of which the U.S governmental establishment along with the U.S think-tank community will start to realize the realities of the downgrading U.S position in the Middle East caused by the Biden Administration's policies, especially with regard to Iran and the strategic choices of many leading regional powers to heading to the (Chinese) East.

More than a year ago, I identified these realities and suggested to be reinforced and demonstrated in the geopolitical future at the contrary of the vast majority of the Western fellows and experts then. Since then, the regional developments and occurrences from Iran and Saudi Arabia to Israel and Egypt are attesting to this suggestion towards a clear fact.

For the time being and after this earlier success, I need to summarize the regional political status quo and the current and near future balance of the West-East geopolitics in the Middle East region, I am thrilled to articulate my related finding as follows: 

The relations of the majority of the Middle Eastern countries with the U.S.-led West would be of beneficial nature while their relations with the Chinese-led East would be of strategic nature.

Let us test this theory again against the forthcoming regional developments.

To be continued.


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