Chinese Soft Power and the Arabs

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  • Kadhim Hashim Niama

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https://doi.org/10.12816/0041009

Keywords:

China, Arab World, Soft Power

Abstract

China's economic growth led to a concomitant expansion of its interests across the globe, and the Middle East and North Africa s today vital to the sustainability of that growth.

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