Persian Gulf | Watching America

Saudi Arabia: The US and NATO Must Team Up in the Gulf

Lalatendu Das - April 18, 2023. Published in Arab News

Burden sharing is a desired goal that has been reiterated by successive U.S. administrations.

China: Old US Thinking Does Not Work in the ‘New Gulf’

Robin Koerner - November 20, 2022. Published in Global Times

[T]he U.S. ... continues to look at the Gulf in the same old way.

Saudi Arabia: Mr. Biden’s Election

Robin Koerner - June 10, 2022. Published in Al-Sharq Al-Awsat

National sovereignty is not subject to how big or how rich states are.

Iraq: Trump Ended the Gulf Dispute

Robin Koerner - December 22, 2021. Published in Sot al-Iraq

[T]he dispute was created by ... Trump in order to milk the Gulf states.

Iraq: There Is Cooperation, Not War, between China and America in the Gulf

Robin Koerner - April 20, 2021. Published in Sot al-Iraq

Riyadh and its Gulf partners have not rushed into China’s embrace. The Gulf “milk cows” remain loyal to those who put them in their positions and keep them in power.

: Oil Threw the Arabs under Iran’s Attacks

Robin Koerner - December 17, 2020. Published in

[T]he U.S.' aggressive stance against Iran does not necessarily mean that it is ready to protect the GCC countries from Tehran’s ambitions.

Ireland: The Irish Times View on Israel’s Peace Deals: Less Than Meets the Eye

Rejeanne Lacroix - September 17, 2020. Published in Irish Times

Germany: Trump Has No Tactical Intuition

Mallory Matsumoto - September 21, 2019. Published in Süddeutsche Zeitung

Dealing with this asymmetrical means of waging war ... requires more tactical intuition than one can expect from a Trump.

Israel: Punish Iran

Lalatendu Das - September 21, 2019. Published in The Jerusalem Post

Canada: Trump Finds Himself Looking for Friends in the Persian Gulf

Rejeanne Lacroix - August 8, 2019. Published in National Post

Egypt: Who Does Trump Think He’s Kidding?!

Robin Koerner - August 6, 2019. Published in Al-Wafd

[T] anyone following the ongoing crisis in the Gulf at even a 10th-grade level, it is obvious that it all started because of Trump himself!

United Arab Emirates: The Gulf and US-UK Relations

Robin Koerner - August 3, 2019. Published in al-Bayan

Both the U.S. and U.K. view the Gulf region as a current and future investment which should not be squandered.

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