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66 China Int'l Stud. 110 (2017)
Belt and Road Initiative in the Gulf Region: Progress and Challenges

handle is hein.journals/chintersd66 and id is 110 raw text is: Belt and Road Initiative in the Gulf Region: Progress and Challenges Liu Li & Wang Zesheng C hina and countries in the Gulf region are at Asia's eastern and western ends respectively, linked by the ancient Silk Road across the Gobi desert. In the new century, the Belt and Road Initiative has become the main focus of strategic cooperation between the two sides. The Gulf countries are natural cooperative partners in the Belt and Road construction' in an important geographical area difficult to bypass. Although the political and security situation in the Gulf region is complicated and unpredictable, presenting challenges to the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative, there remains room for a turnaround in the situation of West Asia and North Africa including the Gulf region itself. China should seize this opportunity, circumventing possible risks and enhancing pragmatic cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative. Strategic Importance of the Gulf Region The Gulf region, including the Gulf Cooperation Council countries plus Iran and Iraq, is situated in the area where the three continents of Asia, Africa and Europe and the five seas of Mediterranean, Red Sea, Arabian Sea, Caspian Sea and Black Sea converge, and is adjacent to the four maritime Liu Li is Associate Research Fellow at the Department for Developing Countries Studies, China Institute of International Studies (CIIS); Wang Zesheng is Assistant Research Fellow at the same department. 1 In a meeting with a delegation from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in January 2014, Chinese President Xi Jinping described China and the GCC as good brothers, friends and partners featuring high mutual trust, substantial trade cooperation and close cultural and people-to-people exchanges. See Wu Sike, Constructing 'One Belt and One Road' to Enhancing China and GCC Cooperation, Arab World Studies, No.2, 2015, pp.4-13. Belt and Road Initiative in the Gulf Region: Progress and Challenges 110 China International Studies

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