A case study of China relations with the Arab world

Abstract

As one of the most breath-taking phenomenon around the globe during recent years, the crude oil price keeps soaring and rewriting its high-level records. Underlying it, China is broadly viewed as the major demand pulling force, while the Arab world naturally stands in the significant supplying side. Then, how could/will these two powers interact given the new circumstance or where are the Sino-Arab relations going? The paper, after briefly reviewing the past over 50 years development of the relationship between China and the Arab world to provide a general understanding and analyzing base, takes Saudi Arabia as a specific example and by closely studying the evolution of the Modern Saudi-Chinese relation, derives some relation essences, and finally following those essences bravely draws an initial outlook of the Sino-Arab relations.