Battleground Pakistan.

China is fast emerging as an assertive colossus in the geopolitical, geostrategic and geo: economic domains. It is maneuvering quite imperiously to impact, define and determine international affairs in different regions of the world. It is fast acquiring the avatar of a benevolent global power and peacemaker seeking to resolve seemingly intractable geopolitical issues/crises. The Greater Middle East Region (GMER) and Europe are its focus of attention, presently.

The US is currently pre: occupied with the Sino: Russia Combine. It is massively engaged in a war of attrition against Russia in Europe and circumscribing China's meteoric rise within the South: Central Asian Region (SCAR) and the Indo: Pacific Region (IPR). Meanwhile, it seems to have lost its iron grip on the GMER, once its sole domain. Its initiative of the Abraham Accords appears to have disappointingly run aground after some initial success. Of late, the Arabs, in particular KSA and UAE, have started showing independent streaks, making policies blatantly at variance to the US: Israel Combine's expectations. Sensing the latent paradigm shift, the Chinese have sedulously moved into the relative power vacuum in the GMER. (The China: KSA Strategic Partnership, by this scribe, The Nation, 30 December 22 and 03 January 23). The GMER was earlier epitomized by a tri: lateral array of mutually hostile centers of power : Israel, the KSA and Iran. The US always managed a tenuous balance of power between them. Its pro: Israel inclinations however were too pronounced to allow it to ever play the honest broker's role in regional issues.

China has now emerged as an alternate power and an accepted: by: all impartial arbiter in the region.

Much to the US: led West's and Israel's consternation, China has managed to bring the seemingly irreconcilable Saudis and Iranians onto the negotiating table. They have mutually decided to re: establish diplomatic relations after a hiatus of about seven years and plan to revive their security and trade agreements. The Iranian President has also accepted an invitation from the Saudi King to visit KSA. Furthermore, the rapprochement between Iran and KSA will cause the smaller Gulf Arab states to start leaning towards Iran as well. This will further pacify the region and cause a regional pull towards Iran, literally nullifying the Abraham Accords. The various hotspots in the GMER, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, (even Pakistan) where KSA and Iran are/were involved...