China’s Engagement with the Islamic Nations

Young-Chan Kim is Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Business and Economics at the University of Greenwich, London (UK). Since 2010, he has focused intensively on China and global business, publishing extensively on Chinese strategic policy. He is currently Chief Editor of the ‘Made in China 2025’ project, a series aimed at giving up-and-coming academics a platform to voice their contemporary research on Chinese Regional Studies.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: China and the Arab Region: Dynamics of Engagement (A. Ehteshami),- Part I. Theoretical overview of China’s strategic relations with the Islamic nations.- Chapter 2. China’s Soft Power in the Middle East (Anu Sharma).- Chapter 3. Iran-China Comparing Foreign Policy: Pragmatists versus Revolutionists (Mohammad Reza Chitsazian).- Chapter 4. Coercion or Choice: Opportunities and Challenges of a 25-Year Agreement for Iran and China (Ali Bagheri Dolatabadi).- Chapter 5. China – Iran relations in the context of the changing world order (Lars Erslev Andersen).- Chapter 6. Iran’s Pragmatic Approach in Accommodating China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Determinant for Future Closer Bilateral Cooperation (Henelito A. Sevilla).- Chapter 7. China’s Tri-Dimensional diplomacy with Iran and Saudi Arabia (Jeremy Garlick).- Part II. Understanding the BRI through its strengths and limitations,- Chapter 8. Sino-Gulf CorporationCouncil Partnership in a New Era of Great Power Competition (Mordechai Chaziza).- Chapter 9. China and Central Asian countries’ cooperation in the sphere of security: religious aspects and beyond (D. Zhekenov).- Chapter 10. Collateral Damage in Sino-Arabic Cooperation: Assessing Middle Eastern and North African silence and complicity in the Uyghur Crisis (Anna Hayes).- Chapter 11. Xinjiang/Uyghurs Autonomous Regions – Bridge between Islam and Orientalism (Young-Chan Kim).- Chapter 12. Conclusion: China, the Arab World, and the Silk Road Diplomacy: towards a New World Order (Ramakrushna Pradhan)