Original Articles
The following are articles published originally on the New Silk Road Monitor Site.
The Business of Chinese New Year 2019
Happy Chinese New Year 2019 to all New Silk Road Monitor readers! Chinese New Year is big business for national and foreign firms. Here's a round-up of some Chinese new year "Year of the Pig" business coverage. Year of the Pig: in Muslim Malaysia, brands tread...
China’s Online Silk Road Grows in the UAE
“Simply put, China is rewriting the rules on how to rise in influence in the Middle East.”
Dubai Retains Spot As Busiest International Airport
It’s appropriate, it seems, to begin the first blog post of the (New) New Silk Road Monitor with a story about airports and Dubai and a Top Ten List. Aviation and logistics will be a perennial theme in these pages, and my own New Silk Road journey has been enhanced...
The United Arab Emirates and Africa: A Pivotal Partnership Amid a South-South Commercial Revolution
The United Arab Emirates has emerged as a “pivotal” trade and investment partner for the African continent amid a “South-South” commercial revolution reshaping the global economy, a new report by a leading Washington-based think tank notes. The report, entitled “The...
China and the GCC States – A Turbo-Charged Trade Relationship
In the year 1993, a quiet milestone was achieved in China that would reverberate across the oil-rich states of the Middle East over the next two decades. In that year, for the first time, China’s oil demand exceeded its domestic supply. In effect, the lines on the...
A Lebanese pop diva, a Chinese smartphone, and the New Silk Road
Nancy Ajram is Lebanese pop royalty. Her candy-sweet songs are hummed across the Arab world. She’s a natural brand ambassador for the biggest global brands targeting the Arab world — and she has hit the airwaves and billboards across the Middle East on behalf of an...
