المملكة العربية السعودية في الاستراتيجية الصينية دراسة في الجيوبولتيك

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the Chinese Strategy : A Geopolitical Study

Abstract
Due to the changes that People’s Republic of China witnessed on the political leadership levels since 1978, China witnessed a successful economic reform operation that made it globally the first state in achieving economic growth rates. Based on the China various potentials, its economic development, a number of academic scholars, specialists in the international affairs, politicians, and decision makers were interested in emerging such powers which is reflected on the international relations level.
People’s Republic of China gave priority to the economic reform process in order to build it firstly, in order to have a universal role, as a result of this self-building in future. This bore its foreign policy tasks. For the sake of that, removing the ideological factors as an important and influential factor in designing its foreign policy to be replaced by mainly the economic factor. Accordingly, the foreign Chinese policy seemed more flexible and widely opened to the world in order to achieve its goals.
Arabia Gulf region in general and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in particular is considered as the most important region to the foreign China directions due to the nature of the geostrategic region and to what economic resources it possesses that the Chinese economy was highly depending on. When the Chinese foreign policy had economic, political, and security directions towards Arabian Gulf region; this policy influenced by other factors relating to the region itself such as geostrategic, political, and security that made the Chinese decision makers have a responsibility to take care with all date in order to get a benefit for its state.
The current study aims at studying all data, particularly influencing the significant geographical factors on the nature of Chinn- Kingdom of Saudi Arabia relations, stating the regional and international stands towards this orientation, and studying the future paths of these directions in the light of the current data. The study reached to a number of results. The most important result was the Chinese foreign directions towards Kingdom of Saudi Arabia were orientations that have mainly economic dimensions. It works to protect its developing business in the region in a way that departed it from the factors that negatively affect the guarantee of these businesses