YⅠ General Report
Y.1 The Causes and Impact of the Political Turmoil in the Middle East
Wang Lincong / 001
YⅡ Special Report
Y.2 Looking East: An Increasingly Obvious Trend
of Middle Eastern Countries An Huihou / 033
Y.3 Economic Importance of China for the Middle
Eastern Countries Yang Guang / 044
Y.4 African Countries Looking East Liu Zhongwei Translator / 055
Y.5 The New Round of Re-approach and Strategic Cooperation
of Africa and Asia He Wenping / 066
Y.6 Economic Analysis of African Looking East Yao Guimei / 078
Y.7 Saudi Arabia: The Strategic Measures of Looking
East and their Impact Chen Mo / 093
Y.8 The Strategic Steps and Impact of Looking East:Iran Lu Jin / 104
Y.9 The Strategic Steps and Impact of Looking East:Turkey
Wang Lincong / 115
Y.10 Strategic Steps and Impact of Looking East:South Africa
Xu Guoqing / 126
Y.11 Strategic Steps and Impact of Looking East: Kenya
Yang Baorong / 142
YⅢ Regional Situation
Y.12 The Latest Progress and Change of Obama’s
Middle East Policy Liu Yueqin / 154
Y.13 Hot Spot Issues and Deadlock Remained Unchanged
in Middle East Yu Guoqing / 169
Y.14 Middle East Economy Showed Stable Recovery
but still Faced Risks Jiang Yingmei / 182
Y.15 Africa’s Strategic Position Kept Rising in International
Relations Zhang Yongpeng / 195
Y.16 Several Key Words of African Political Development He Wenping / 208
Y.17 African Economy Recovered after Reaching the Bottom
Piao Yingji / 218
YⅣ Market Assessment
Y.18 Foreign Trade of the West-Asian and African Countries Zhou Mi / 231
Y.19 Foreign Direct Investment of West-Asian and Africa Countries
Li Zhipeng / 243
Y.20 Assistance from International Community to Africa
and the Middle East Mao Xiaojing / 254
YⅤ Documentation
Y.21 Review of Middle East Studies in China in 2009 Fan Xiaohong / 264
Y.22 Review of African Studies in China in 2009 An Chunying / 277
Y.23 Chronology of Midelle East and African Countries in 2009
Cheng Hong / 290
Y.24 Table Chen Mo / 305
Description:
The young people’s “self-burning”in Tunisia has led to the “butterfly effects”in the Middle East. The political turmoil caused by “self-burning”are still continuing, which is the reflection of the crisis of political legitimacy in Middle East. The political turmoil is the combination of internal causes and external causes. Internal causes are decisive while external causes are playing a role of adding fuel to the fire. There are many factors for the turmoil, including the social structure change, the problem of people’s livelihood, denomination conflicts, concentration of power and grave corruption. In the same time, the impact of new media and foreign intervenes are adding fuel to the political turmoil. Lots of political turmoil in the Middle East countries are from the bottom to top, in which the youth is the main forces. In the long run, the democratic process in the Middle East has a trend of to be accelerated and will lead to the change of power structure in this region, which is the sign of entering a new evolution and transformation era. Meanwhile, the tendency of strategic measures of “Looking East” in the Middle East countries will still be apparent in the future.