CHINA AND MOROCCO: IMPROBABLE PARTNERS?

Authors

  • NIV HORESH

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26619/1647-7251.14.1.02

Abstract

If Chinese foreign policy acumen in the Middle East is manifest in China’s ability to bypass Shi'a-Sunni rivalries between Iran and Saudi Arabia, then in North Africa this policy is surely paralleled by China’s ability to remain neutral in the Western Sahara conflict, with a slight tilt in favour of Morocoo.

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Author Biography

NIV HORESH

Associate Professor at Western Sydney University (Australia). He is a China specialist with over 20 years of experience ranging across the private sector, public service and academe. Between 2000-2003, he lived and worked in Beijing, and has been visiting different parts of the Chinesespeaking world regularly since. Over the course of his academic career, Niv has held teaching and research positions at Hebrew University, China Agricultural University, the University of New South Wales, and the University of Nottingham. He gave keynote presentations of his research around the world including at Oxford University, NYU Stern School of Business and UCLA. Niv's research incorporates four main strands in the following order: Chinese History, World Monetary History, PRC Political Economy, and PRC Foreign Policy with emphasis on the Middle East. His latest book is China’s Grand Strategy under Xi Jinping: How History Complicates Beijing’s Global Outreach (Routledge, 2022).

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Published

2023-05-30

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 1 (2023)

Section

NOTES AND REFLECTIONS