Ashraf AboArafe
Preparing for the first Arab-Chinese summit in December 2022, sponsored by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the China-Arab Center for Reform and Development Studies, the Arab-Chinese Forum was concluded last Thursday, with the participation of about 20 Arab and Chinese experts via videoconferencing.
* joint cooperation!
The experts discussed the prospects for joint cooperation, and discussed ways to enhance common development and integrate its strategies within the framework of the global development initiative that China launched after the “Road and Belt” initiative. And push efforts to achieve the development goals known as the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
* exceptional!
There are exceptional opportunities that can be exploited between the Arabs and China. Among these opportunities, joint investment in the fields of mining, particularly in Algeria, Mauritania and Sudan, and the establishment of joint industrial bases.
* Largest partener!
It is noteworthy that China is the largest trading partner of the Arab countries, as the volume of trade exchange between them reached about $330 billion in the past year, an increase of 37% over the previous year. Despite this, the trade exchange between China and the Arabs was traditional. It is still confined to typical patterns of exchange, and in limited areas, such as energy, infrastructure, and commodity exchange, especially Chinese industrial products. Atypical cooperation.
* Arab-Chinese market!
Although the well-established Arab-Chinese cooperation, it did not achieve much progress in areas of exceptional importance, such as cooperation in achieving food security for about 2 billion people representing the demographics of these countries, nor did it achieve tangible progress in economic integration that addresses the needs of the Arab-Chinese market and neighboring markets. And he did not benefit sufficiently from the available and latent energies at his extremities.
* Exclusive!
There are exceptional opportunities that can be exploited between the Arabs and China. Among these opportunities are opportunities for joint investment in the fields of mining, especially in Algeria, Mauritania and Sudan, and opportunities for establishing joint industrial bases in which Chinese capabilities in terms of knowledge, technologies and expertise are employed, and in which raw materials are used that abound in Arab countries, with a focus on raw materials that are produced in large quantities. Exclusive to some Arab countries, such as raw gum arabic, in which Sudan produces 80% of the world’s production and is monopolized by Zionist cartels, knowing that this substance is used in most food and pharmaceutical industries, as well as in most military industries, especially in advanced military industries related to missile and space fields. . Gum Arabic is one of the rare raw materials that Arab countries abound in.
* A milestone!
In the hands of the first Arab-Chinese summit, as a milestone in the strategic partnership between the Arab countries and China, the Arab-Chinese economic and development cooperation has great prospects, especially in the international circumstances that are witnessing great turmoil, and are undergoing great changes that call for more efforts from all parties to draw up a strategy Cooperation that establishes a new future for Arab-Chinese relations that were established thousands of years ago, and contributes to creating a new international future with multiple poles, and a new international order based on the values of freedom and justice, after the inability of the existing international system now to establish its pillars on these two values.
