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April 2021
Past Event
Virtual Event | Taking Stock of China’s Emerging Middle Eastern Kingdom

Virtual Event | Taking Stock of China’s Emerging Middle Eastern Kingdom

Past Event
Online event
April 19, 2021
19
April 2021
Past Event
Speakers:
Xiyue Wang

Jeane Kirkpatrick Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute & PhD Candidate in History at Princeton University

Bernard Haykel

Professor of Near Eastern Studies & Director of the Institute for Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia at Princeton University

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Michael Doran

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East

Peter Rough Hudson Institute
Peter Rough

Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia

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Join Hudson Institute Senior Fellows Peter Rough and Michael Doran and Xiyue Wang, the Princeton Ph.D. candidate who was detained for more than three years in Iran, and Bernard Haykel, one of America’s leading experts on the Middle East, for a discussion on China’s Middle East strategy and its partnership with Iran.

The rise of Chinese influence is one of the key foreign policy challenges of our time, and the strengthened ties between America’s adversaries poses a clear threat to U.S. interests. What does the 25-year agreement between Tehran and Beijing mean for both powers, and for the wider MENA region? Join our panelists for this timely discussion.

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