Competition or cooperation; The future of US and China presence in West Asia

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mehrshad ghafarizade ¹ , Omid Asiaban ² , Enayatollah Yazdani ³

1 - University of Esfahan
2 - Department of International Relations, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Department of International Relations, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Isfahan University, Isfahan, Iran.

Received: 2022-03-20 Accepted : 2022-07-26 Published : 2022-06-22

Keywords: China, USA, West Asia, Future Research, favorable future,

Abstract :

China's growing presence in the West Asian region has led to a number of debates in academia and policy-making. China is now a global strategic threat to US interests. China's growing presence in the region has led to the question of how much the policy of the United States and China will change and what future or futures can be drawn for the strategic presence of China and the United States in the region? According to this research hypothesis, the strategic position of the region requires that despite the strategic rivalry between China and the United States in the world, they will work together in the West Asian region. The research method is descriptive-analytical and oversees the future research approach. According to the research findings, the presence of the United States and China in the West Asian region can be considered in the form of four "possible, believable, probable and desirable" futures. Given the need of these two supra-regional governments for the West Asian region, it can be said that the desired future is cooperation and the presence of both governments in the region is predictable.

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