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China’s Middle East strategy falters as Aleppo falls to rebel forces

While China has invested in Syria’s reconstruction and seeks to expand its regional presence, the renewed violence has put its ambitions on hold.

Alessandro Arduino

Beijing is discovering the hard way, as the West has, the perils and advantages of outsourcing security to private companies to maintain plausible...

China is bound to become more reliant on private security firms as it expands its global economic and diplomatic reach – the challenge lies in...

Escalating provocations by the Iran-backed Houthis threaten trade and energy security, and also weigh on China’s credibility as a mediator in the...