The New Silk Road How a Rising Arab World is Turning Away from the West and Rediscovering China

by Simpfendorfer, Ben

• ISBN13: 9780230580268
• ISBN10: 0230580262
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The rise of the Arab world and China are part of the same story, once trading partners via the Silk Road. It isn#x19;t a coincidence that Arab traders have returned to China at the same time that China is fast regaining its share of the global economy. This is a breakthrough account of how China is spurring growth in the Arab world.

Author Biography

BEN SIMPFENDORFER is currently the Asia and Middle East Strategist at the Royal Bank of Scotland in Hong Kong and was previously the Senior China economist at JPMorgan in Hong Kong. Simpfendorfer has lived in Beijing, Beirut, Damascus and Hong Kong and spends most of his time working as an analyst interpreting events for the foreign business and investment community. He has spent fifteen years reading local newspapers, speaking with the everyday person on the streets of Beirut to Beijing, and assessing economic data from the two regions. He has immersed himself in the two cultures and has personally observed many of the watershed events unfold in the Arab world ad China during that time.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The New Silk Road: The Arab World Rediscovers China	p. 7
Chinese Petrodollars and the Competition for Oil	p. 28
The Arab Wealth Funds and the Rise of an "Islamic Corridor"	p. 51
Syria Learns from China while the Chinese "Go Global"	p. 76
Young Women and the Future of the Arab World	p. 97
The New Public Relations War: "Al Jazeera" in China	p. 116
Arabic and the Language of Globalization	p. 136
Implications for the West: A New Center of Gravity	p. 154
Notes	p. 174
Index	p. 197
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