Sino-Egyptian Relations post-2013: The Dynamics and Challenges of an Emerging Strategic Partnership

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Fall 12-2021

Abstract

In 2014, China and Egypt upgraded their bilateral relations to the level of comprehensive strategic partnership, providing a new framework under which both states have been able to intensify and deepen their cooperation as never before. Building on the concept of strategic partnership as a newly emerging framework of international cooperation, this article examines the dynamics of the Sino-Egyptian comprehensive strategic partnership from the perspective of the driving motivations of both actors, its policy manifestations as well as its potential challenges in the future. The article contends that while the Sino-Egyptian comprehensive strategic partnership has offered an ideal framework of win-win bilateral cooperation that corresponded to the strategic interests and needs of both actors in a critical historical juncture post-2013, this framework, which involves a number of imbedded limitations, might not continue to serve bilateral interactions in the medium and long terms, particularly as it pertains to their future corresponding security and economic concerns.

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Gamal M. Selim and Rania S. Moaaz, “Sino-Egyptian Relations post-2013: The Dynamics and Challenges of an Emerging Strategic Partnership,” Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 4 (Fall 2021), pp. 349-370

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