Opinion
The Impact of the Coronavirus on the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative in the Middle East
In the Middle East, US partners are already being confronted with difficult choices, whether as recipients of Chinese technologies or as developers thereof, particularly as the Chinese and Americans increasingly come to view their global competition as a zero-sum game. It may be reasonable to suspect that this dynamic may extend to BRI related projects beyond the Middle East, contributing to the atmosphere of an intensifying global rivalry, write Ori Sela and Brandon Friedman from Tel Aviv University.