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The recent Xi-Trump summit did not end the U.S.-China rivalry, but rather shifted it from the boxing ring to the chessboard.
Saoud El Mawla
The Iran war has pushed Europe and the Gulf into closer strategic alignment, driven by shared concerns over energy security, maritime stability, and overreliance on the United States. Yet the same structural dependencies and political divisions that make cooperation necessary may also limit how far it can go.
Camille Lons
Iran sits at the geographic center of a Eurasian project that China and Russia have been working on for years. Can U.S. military intervention effectively put an end to the emerging multipolar order?
Omar Aziez
Gulf investments in layered air and missile defenses have enabled regional states to absorb Iranian attacks, protect critical infrastructure, and maintain strategic restraint in a war they neither started nor wish to join.
Rashid Al-Mohanadi
Iran’s strikes on Gulf states risk drawing the region into a wider war that could reshape the Middle East’s strategic balance. For Gulf governments, the most consequential decision may not be how to retaliate, but whether to enter the conflict at all.
Alanoud Hamad Saud Al Thani
Iran’s retaliation following U.S.–Israeli strikes reflects a strategic miscalculation that risks undermining Gulf neutrality and weakening regional mediation efforts, thereby complicating prospects for de-escalation.