In the West Asia crisis, an opportunity for China

It has also left America’s allies and rivals scrambling to respond to an unpredictable and unreliable superpower, triggering an historic geopolitical realignment that will shift the global balance of power across the next decade. The war’s effects are most immediate and profound, of course, across the region in which it’s being fought. The war has helped persuade many Gulf Arab States that the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) — a loose diplomatic, economic, and security arrangement long plagued by infighting — is no longer fit for purpose. For the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which on April 28 announced its intent to…