The new Silk Road : how a rising Arab world is turning away from the west and rediscovering China /
Ben Simpfendorfer.
- Basingstoke UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
- 202 p.
Study of the growing economic ties between China and the Arab countries of the middle east. China is a buyer of middle east oil while the middle east buys Chinese made products and both are looking for investment opportunities. Considers whether this is a substantial realignment or whether cultural tensions will prevent closer ties with for example Saudi Arabia and what implications these changes may have for the West.