TY  - BOOK
AU  - SIMPFENDORFER Ben
TI  - The new Silk Road: how a rising Arab world is turning away from the west and rediscovering China 
SN  - 9780230580268 (pbk) :
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Basingstoke UK
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - CHINA
KW  - ECONOMIC RELATIONS
KW  - ARAB COUNTRIES
N2  - 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
ER  -