On March 10, nonresident fellow Tuvia Gering was quoted in the Wall Street Journal on how China brokered a Mideast diplomatic breakthrough between Iran and Saudi Arabia. “It used to be that the U.S. was the indispensable power,” said Tuvia Gering, an Israel-based academic and nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub, who has written extensively on Beijing’s growing regional role. “Now China is an indispensable power in the Middle East—that’s a fact.”
