As China brokered a peace agreement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, President Yoon Seok-yeol’s remarks that “the United Arab Emirates is less Iran” became powerless.
The Saudi-Iranian peace agreement fulfills Iran's promise to "suspend further attacks on Saudi Arabia and reduce aid to armed groups targeting the kingdom," as well as an agreement to reopen the embassy that was closed in 2016.
According to the agreement announced simultaneously by Iran and Saudi Arabia on the 10th, Iranian support for the Houthi rebels fighting with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is restricted by the agreement, breaking the structure of “UAE and Iran are enemies”.
In mediation between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran, which have been pressuring each other for decades, Israel's presence was omitted from the negotiations for the first time as China became the mediator, rather than the United States, which had dominated the Middle East for over 70 years.
Iran and Saudi Arabia waged a proxy war in Yemen, and the Houthi rebels, allied with Iran, fought and fired missiles at Saudi forces for eight years.
The Biden Democratic administration attempted negotiations with the support of the United Nations last year, and hostilities between the two sides decreased significantly with a temporary ceasefire.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, who raised $2 billion for an investment company founded by his son-in-law Jared Kushner in the Republican Trump administration, started a complicated diplomatic game after President Biden took office on a pro-donghwa party line, and was the first state guest at the invitation of President Seok-Yeol Yoon. We shared dinner.
"The UAE's enemy, the most threatening country, is Iran, and our enemy is North Korea," said President Yoon at the ARK unit dispatched to the UAE on January 15.
The Trump Republican administration used a strategy to connect Saudi Arabia through the Abraham Accords in support of establishing diplomatic relations with Israel and Bahrain in the UAE.
China, on the other hand, isolated Israel by facilitating an attempt by Israel to unite Saudi Arabia and Iran in response to the United States' attempt to unite Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia back and forth between the US Republican Party and the Democratic Party to support elections, go beyond security guarantees, and demand support for civilian nuclear development and lift restrictions on arms sales.
Conversely, China has tried a variety of approaches, expanding trade to export oil and gas from the Middle East tied to the war in Ukraine.
"Some people in the Gulf clearly see this as China's century," Stephen Cook, senior fellow for Middle East at the Council on Foreign Relations, told the NYT. revealed
Amy Hawthorne, deputy research director for the Middle East Democracy Project, an American non-profit organization, said of the Saudi-Iran deal, "The United States couldn't broker such a deal with Iran right now because we have no relationship," and added, "In a larger sense, China's prestigious achievement is diplomatic. elevate it into a new league and surpass anything America has been able to achieve in the region since Biden took office," he told the NYT on the 13th.
"This is the latest reminder that competition is on the global stage," said Mara Rudman, vice president of policy at the Center for American Progress, who was President Obama's special envoy to the Middle East. It's not limited to the Pacific," he said, evaluating the Saudi-Iran-China arbitration.
Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to restore official relations after a seven-year severance, confirming "resumption of embassies in each other's countries within two months" and "respect for national sovereignty and non-interference in internal affairs," the Saudi news agency announced on the 10th. stated in a statement. Iran's state media also issued a joint statement on the same day.
“The two countries agreed to reactivate long-standing trade, investment and cultural agreements with Iranian-backed militias targeting Saudi Arabia with missile and drone strikes over the years,” the joint statement said.
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