China's diplomatic clout in Mideast at risk as threats build around ally Iran

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Trump would continue to push his diplomatic legacy in the region, the Abraham Accords, which encourages Israel - Iran's biggest rival in the region - to establish diplomatic relations with Arab countries.
47% : He predicted that if Trump took a hardline attitude to support Israel, the Gaza war could be ended in a timely manner.
43% : "Sure, China and Iran have common interests, but they also have differing interests ... but finally [the two countries' relations] are depending on what Trump will do [to China and Iran].
39% : Photo: XInhua>This month, Boulous told French media outlet Le Point that Trump would certainly pursue the "maximum pressure" campaign against Iran in the clearest indication yet that the incoming administration would enforce Iran's economic and geopolitical isolation.
33% : Wen Shaobiao, a Middle East specialist at Shanghai International Studies University, said Trump's unyielding support for Israel and harsh approach to Iran could shrink China's space as a regional mediator.
29% : After withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal - a multipolar framework to negotiate Iran's nuclear issue - Trump imposed harsher economic sanctions on the Islamic Republic, a campaign Washington called "maximum pressure" and whose impact has lasted until today.
29% : But James Dorsey, a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University, said Beijing might not be willing to seek closer relations with Tehran if Trump conducts a hawkish stance towards their partnership.

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