Very surprising video coming from Al Jazeera, which had consistently reported negatively on China for sometime.
Hope we are seeing a reversal of trend from this outlet.
Or is it just a one-time video from Sana Saeed and producers? Credit shown from 23:00 onward.
It's not actually in the interests of Qatar and the rest of the Middle East to see a hostile cold war relationship between China and the US, which the demonisation of China is helping to foster.
You can see how countries like the UAE are already being torn between the F-35 versus Huawei telecoms equipment.
China is one of their biggest customers for Middle Eastern oil and gas. Plus they can reasonably expect China to have a much larger military and economic presence in the future, potentially displacing the US in the Middle East.
And if the US and China do get into a conflict in the Western Pacific, it could very well spill over into the Middle East.
Iran and Afghanistan have nothing left to lose because they are already subject to maximum US sanctions. So Iran might decide to block oil and gas exports from the Persian Gulf.
At the same time, Iran would welcome the Chinese Air Force if they were targeting US ships in the Persian Gulf.