Historical relations down the ages

China and Arab countries have made great progress in communications and cooperation after setting up the China-Arab Cooperation Forum in 2004. Sino-Arab cooperation cannot progress without the support of government departments and NGOs. More importantly, the development of Sino-Arab relations helps meet the realistic demands of the two sides in the fields of politics, economy and national strategy. And that conforms to globalization.

After 9/11, relations between the United States, rather the entire Western world, and Arab countries have undergone a drastic change. Their mutual distrust in political and strategic areas is reflected in media reports. There is cultural and religious hostility on both sides. Worse still, mutual hatred and suspicion rule the minds of people on both sides.

US-Arab relations took a turn for the worse during the George W. Bush administration, when the US government didn't even try to hide its intention of carrying out Western-style democratic reform in the Middle East and changing its traditional political systems.