On November 27, the Valdai Club hosted an expert discussion dedicated to the Asian perspective on the Middle East crisis. Rakesh Bhadauria, Major General (ret.), Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies and Modelling, Joint Institute for Defence Studies of India (New Delhi); Rahakundini Bakrie Connie, Lecturer at Jenderal Achmad Yani University, Indonesia; John Gong, Professor, Vice President of Research and Strategy at the University of International Business and Economics – Israel (UIBE – Israel); Raza Muhammad, President, Institute of Policy Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan, participated. The event was moderated by Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club.