China and the Islamic world: Religious Dimension in the New Cold War
The issue of the Islamic dimension in the relation between China and the main Islamic countries, especially, the role of the growth of Islam in China has played considerable role in their relationship after the 1980s. Amid an intensified potential war threatening and strategic competition between China and the USA such two powers in the world’s politics, economics and military which causes current antagonism since the 2010s, how does China design her foreign policy toward the Islamic world? What is the motivation in her diplomatic approaches to the Islamic countries? And what is the substantial position of the religious and Muslim minority affairs in China mapping out her external strategy and internal tactics to counter the various pressures from the West presumed by CCP? This paper uses historiography and the political analysis to unfold the complicated relationship between China and the Islamic world in the context of Sino- American competition.
