Dr Jin Liangxiang is a research fellow at Shanghai Institutes for International Studies. His current research fields are Middle East politics and international relations.
The Iran nuclear disputes have caused huge negative impacts on China-Iran economic relations, but such impacts will be weakened as US dominant economic role elapses.
Despite being a market player, the argument of China's role as a free-rider or irresponsible player in the Middle East is based on several wrong pre-assumptions.
Although lack of regionalism is a reason behind Middle East turmoil, interventions in other regional countries by regional powers will prove just as disastrous as intervention by external powers.