Patrick J. Deneen

Barbara Slavin

Ramzy Baroud

Gurminder K. Bhambra

Yi Liu

Hasan Aydın

Kaan Devecioğlu

Ferhat Pirinççi

Mesut Özcan

Mehmet Köse

Tunç Demirtaş

Shirzad Azad

Stuart A. Reid

Abdallah Imam Haruna

Abdessamad Belhaj

Ahmed Badawi Mustapha

Aiman Urooj

Anwar Abdifatah Bashir

Arianna Grasso

Cem Yücetürk

Dagmar Angelovicova

Edward T.G. Anderson

Ensar Küçükaltan

Fingani Annie Mphande

Gökhan Kavak

Habtamu Alebachew Legass

Haluk Doğan

Hamza Haşil

Ibrahim Mulushewa Eshete

Kerim Sert

Özgür Öztürk

Patrick Maluki

Rukiye Kaya Yetiş

Sadık Abu Amr

Usaama Al-Azami

Zainul Abideen Jibril

Insight Turkey - Summer 2024 / Türkiye - Afrika Relations

The conclusion of the multilateral agreement about the Iranian nuclear issue in June 2015 was widely predicted to accelerate both the scope and size of commercial interactions between China and Iran. As a result, the two countries talked about the prospect of increasing their bilateral commerce from less than $50 billion to $600 billion within a short period of time. Later, Beijing and Tehran moved to sign a 25-year strategic agreement partly to achieve that critical objective. The American withdrawal from the nuclear deal under the Trump administration in May 2018, however, put a halt to the rosy trade prospect of $600 billion between China and Iran. The contentious 25-year pact laid in the limbo in the wake of the crippling regime of international sanctions in which Washington spearheaded against Iran upon quitting the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Shirzad Azad argues how China’s overall commercial relationship with Iran has turned out to be unusually asymmetrical and lopsided over the past several years. In some areas, Sino–Iranian business partnership surprisingly dwindled to a trickle, while in several other fields the presence of Chinese brands and technological expertise in Iran unexpectedly reached an all-time high.

Economic Implications of the Suspended Nuclear Deal

China and Iran Readjust Relations

This study is comprised of six chapters each of which concentrates on a different aspect of East Asia’s advantageous engagement in contemporary Middle East, scrutinizing various critical factors which helped East Asian nations to benefit significantly from all circumstances favorable to them in those important areas in the region.

East Asia’s Strategic Advantage in the Middle East

Shirzad Azad

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