China Doesn’t Aim to Supplant US in Middle East: conference

China benefits from US influence in Middle East, while competing with it, say conference speakers

By: Toh Han Shih

Speakers at an April 19 hearing of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) in Washington delivered a moderately sanguine view of China-US relations in the Middle East, saying China doesn’t seek to eject the US from the region, although it nonetheless does compete strongly with it.

“China doesn't want to supplant the Un…