Bilal2025-08-282025-08-282022https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/5619This research intends to illustrate China's strategic alignment with the Middle Eastern states for the Belt and Road Initiative's long-term project. The Arab world strongly supports China's driven economic presence in the Persian Gulf to achieve regional peace and progress. Furthermore, the research was motivated by long-term strategic partnerships, sustaining the status quo, and rising as a hegemon in the presence of the US in the regionen-USThesis