There is no ‘Middle East.’ There’s a Levant America loves and a Gulf China needs

ensuring access to Persian Gulf oil will be a vital national interest of China. Beijing’s solution, at least in part, is the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor that connects Pakistan’s port of Gwadar (near the junction of the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman) to China’s oil terminal in Kashgar (near its border with Pakistan).

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