Wednesday, August 5, 2020

China Plays Cautious in Libya

China Mediterranean published on 4 August 2020 an analysis titled "The Geopolitics of China's Libya Foreign Policy" by Giorgio Cafiero, CEO of Gulf State Analytics, a Washington-based geopolitical risk consultancy.

China is pragmatically avoiding excessive entanglement in Libya's complex conflict.  China is content to permit other powers to fight for influence in Libya.  China is patiently looking years and decades in the future when conflict comes to an end in Libya and then the countries can establish close relations.  In 2010, 3 percent of China's imported oil came from Libya.  In 2019, only 1.5 percent came from Libya.