The Middle East has been of great importance to China, and is high on the country's foreign policy agenda. It is one of the most geopolitically important regions in the world.

Rising trade tensions, global policy uncertainty, and regional conflicts are presenting challenges to economies in the Middle East and North Africa and Caucasus and Central Asia regions. Policymakers ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran launched missiles at a U.S. military base in Qatar on Monday, threatening to stoke a wider conflict in the Middle East, a region that supplies the world with about a third ...

Conflict in the Middle East often stokes fears of an energy crisis. The Arab-Israeli War of 1973 led to an oil embargo that caused calamitous shortages of gasoline in the United States.

Middle East conflict highlights how vastly the global energy supply has changed in recent years By MATT OTT , AP Business Writer June 25, 2025 FILE - Pumpjacks are seen before sunrise in Hobbs, N ...

Conflict in the Middle East often stokes fears of an energy crisis. The Arab-Israeli War of 1973 led to an oil embargo that caused calamitous shortages of gasoline in the United States.

Israel’s attack on Iran has catapulted their long-running conflict into what could become a wider, more dangerous regional war and potentially drive prices higher for both businesses and households.

Middle East conflict highlights how vastly the global energy supply has changed in recent years By MATT OTT , AP Business Writer June 25, 2025 FILE - Pumpjacks are seen before sunrise in Hobbs, N ...