Assad Fall and its Implications on China's Middle Eastern Policy

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1 Faculty Member at the Institute for Security and Development Studies (ISDS), Tehran, Iran

2 PhD, International Relations, Azad University

10.22099/ijas.2025.52763.1032

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The fall of Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria, as one of the most important political developments in the Middle East, has had widespread effects on regional and international equations. This issue has faced China, as one of the important regional players and Assad's allies, with challenges and has had consequences for Beijing's regional policy. This article, with the hypothesis that the fall of the Assad government will reduce China's influence in the Middle East, but China will use economic and diplomatic tools to try to maintain and even strengthen its position in the region and will seek to establish relations with the new government in Syria to guarantee its economic and security interests in the region, examines the consequences of the fall of the Assad government on China's Middle East policy, analyzes the effects of this development on China's relations with other regional and international players, and answers the question: "What effect does the fall of the Bashar al-Assad government have on China's Middle East policy and its position in regional equations?"

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Iranian Journal of Asian Studies

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 12 April 2025

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