China-Libya Relations

 The Middle East Institute published on 22 December 2020 an analysis titled "China's Libya Policy and the BRI: Sights Set on the Future" by Mordechai Chaziza, Ashkelon Academic College, Israel.  

The author concludes that in an effort to advance its Belt and Road Initiative, China is moving from a neutral position in Libya to one of greater prominence.  

China Balances Its Relations between Libyan Government and Libya National Army

 The Middle East Institute published on 22 December 2020 an analysis titled "China's Libya Policy and the BRI: Sights Set on the Future" by Mordechai Chaziza.  

Officially, China supports the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Libya.  Chinese diplomats meet with GNA officials while keeping economic channels open but they are careful not to burn bridges with the opposition Libya National Army led by Khalifa Haftar.   

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.  

Africa's Global Trends

The Institute for Global Dialogue at the University of South Africa published in May 2020 its "Spotlight on Africa: Mapping Geopolitical Trends for Quarter One 2020."

It contains brief sections on:

--Growing militancy in the Sahel and beyond.
--The internationalization of the Libyan crisis.
--The hydropolitics of the Nile.
--Navigating high-wire transitions in Sudan and Ethiopia.
--The global Covid-19 pandemic: the black swan of 2020.