QATAR-CHINA: A Developed Relations in a Perplexed Region

Qatar and China in the recent decades built a constant growing relations despite the troubles and complexities in the Middle East region. That relations based on the mutual interests for the both countries basically in the energy security and commerce, along with achieving a balanced relations for Qatar in opposite with United States, the main ally for the Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC) in the Gulf peninsula. This paper tries to observe the main drivers of this bilateral relation, and to give an account about the development of this relations and what are the main quantum leaps to understand this ties. The paper tries to accompile the literature on the Chinese studies and the GCC countries and to fill the shortage in the academia about China-Arab, China- Middle East, and China and GCC political relations.