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4 weeks ago | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Jonathan Fulton |Daniel Fried |Peter Malcolm Dickinson |Jonathan Panikoff
New Atlanticist Mar 17, 2025 Enough carrots for Putin. For better negotiations, serve ‘maximum pressure’ instead. By Benjamin L.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
chinamenanewsletter.substack.com | Jonathan Fulton
I haven’t focused much on Syria over the years because there wasn’t much to focus on for a China watcher. China supported the Assad regime with 8 vetoes in the UN, which is unusual in that it has only used the veto 16 times ever. This cost the PRC reputationally; there were Arab governments that were deeply unhappy about China’s support for Assad. And it wasn’t like China got a lot from its relationship with Syria in material terms.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
chinamenanewsletter.substack.com | Jonathan Fulton
The China-Iran relationship is one of the most politicized bilaterals I can think of, perhaps right after China-Russia. I understand why; Iran is an outright revisionist state and the rivalry between the US and China shapes a lot of thinking about Beijing’s behaviour. The US Department of Defense identified China and Russia as its two primary threats, and Iran, North Korea and terrorism as its three secondary threats.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
chinamenanewsletter.substack.com | Jonathan Fulton
Like I said last week, I’m going to start posting conversations with authors and analysts more regularly. Today I talked with Michael Schuman about a report we recently co-authored for the Atlantic Council, “China’s Middle East policy shift from hedging to wedging”. In the report we look at how China’s approach to the Middle East has been evolving in recent years.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Michael Schuman |Jonathan Fulton |Tuvia Gering
China Economy & Business International Markets Middle East Politics & Diplomacy Trade China’s Middle East policy shift from “hedging” to “wedging” Table of contents Introduction: China, the Gaza crisis, and the new Middle East China’s interests in the Middle East Country-to-country ties At the international level Middle East responses Systemic considerations in China’s approach to the Middle East The logic of hedging The transition to wedging Challenges to China’s strategy The dynamic of...
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
chinamenanewsletter.substack.com | Jonathan Fulton
In April 2023 I met with a senior Chinese Middle East specialist. He hadn’t been to the region since pre-COVID and I hadn’t been to China since pre-COVID either, so it was a chance for us to catch up personally and also to get a sense of what had changed in both neighbourhoods since we’d last visited. This was about a month after the Saudi-Iran rapprochement was announced in Beijing, two months after Iran’s President Raisi visited Beijing, and five months after the Xi visit to Riyadh.
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May 11, 2024 | 
medium.com | Jonathan Fulton
ChatGPT ushered in a new era of coding. No longer did one have to hope Stackoverflow had the answer to a coding question. Instead, one could merely prompt ChatGPT to give the answer to questions and get a response back within seconds. It was a game changer for me and our team at Eppo, particularly when we were dealing with unfamiliar domains. Cursor AI Code Editor is a game changer almost as big as ChatGPT. It's ChatGPT that knows your codebase.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Jonathan Fulton
China Economy & Business Financial Regulation Fiscal and Structural Reform International Financial Institutions International Markets Macroeconomics Middle East Trade Jonathan Fulton testifies to the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission Jonathan Fulton, nonresident senior fellow for Atlantic Council’s Middle East Programs and the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative, testifies before the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission Hearing on “China and the Middle...
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Jonathan Fulton |Holly Dagres
China Conflict Iran Middle East Politics & Diplomacy Security & Defense The Gulf China doesn’t have as much leverage in the Middle East as one thinks—at least when it comes to Iran In case it wasn’t already clear, the challenges of working with Iran became apparent again in Beijing. Tensions in the Middle East have been steadily escalating, and Tehran and its proxies are at the center of much of it. After a year of headlines about China’s growing clout in the Middle East, recent events have...
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Oct 16, 2023 | 
atlanticcouncil.org | Michael Schuman |Jonathan Fulton |Tuvia Gering |Veda Vaidyanathan
China Economy & Business Politics & Diplomacy Why China won’t win the Global South Introduction China’s diplomacy in the Global South The new balance of power in the Global South China’s new imperialism Rivals from within Conclusion Concern has gripped policymakers in Washington that the United States and its democratic partners in Europe and the Indo-Pacific have “lost” the Global South to China. Support among the world’s developing countries will prove critical in deciding who wins and who...
