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Khizar Niazi is the former Ambassador of Pakistan to Kuwait and Sudan and High Commissioner to Australia and New Zealand. Until recently he has been associated with Arab Open University, Kuwait and is presently working on a book titled Democracy in Kuwait: Strengths and Weaknesses.
Kuwait Looks towards the East: Relations with China
Originally posted September 2009
There is a growing tendency among the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states to benefit from the favorable conditions in the rapidly growing economies of the East. As was amply demonstrated at a symposium organized by the Centre for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies at Kuwait University in May 2009 on the “Reality of GCC-Asian Relationship — opportunities and challenges,” Kuwait exemplifies this trend.
