Tag: GCC

Geostrategic magazine (11 November 2025)

From global think tanks The analyses published here do not necessarily reflect the strategic thinking of The Global Eye. Today’s about: China; COP30; Ethiopia-Eritrea; EU; Eurasian...

Is the GCC ready to embrace sustainable finance? (Dominik Treeck, Mustafa Domanic, and Hendrik Wittrock, Atlantic Council)

As representatives from across the financial services sector returned home from the October 31-November 12 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26),...

China and Gulf states pledge to ‘inject new impetus’ into talks on free trade agreement (Sean Mathews, Middle East Eye)

Beijing and Gulf states say they are committed to reviving long-dormant talks aimed at reaching a free trade agreement, as they look to strengthen...

Gulf ministers visit China to discuss strengthening energy ties (Al Jazeera)

Foreign ministers from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain along with the Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Nayef bin Falah al-Hajrah have...

Unprecedented GCC group visit may greatly enhance FTA negotiation progress: analysts (Yang Sheng and Zhang Changyue, Global Times)

The first-ever group visit of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries may make breakthroughs in the negotiations over a China-GCC Free Trade Agreement (FTA), analysts...

India-GCC: Prospects for post-pandemic trade cooperation and economic recovery (ORF)

Boasting a gilded heritage of trade ties going back to the Dilmun and Indus Valley civilisations, the Gulf states, united under the umbrella of...

(GCC) Where does Gulf reconciliation leave the UAE? (Giorgio Cafiero, The New Arab)

The Gulf summit held this month in Saudi Arabia's Al Ula, which resulted in an agreement to lift the blockade of Qatar, marked a major...

What will reduced tensions within the GCC mean for Iran? (Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera)

Despite COVID-19 considerations, Qatar’s ruling emir and Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler hugged as the former arrived in the historic city of Al-Ula on...

Has the GCC crisis been resolved? (Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Al Jazeera)

Exactly 43 months to the day since Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt severed political and economic ties with Qatar on...

QATAR/GCC – ‘Welcome development’: Reaction to the Qatar-GCC agreement (Al Jazeera)

The Saudi foreign minister has said Saudi Arabia and its three Arab allies agree to restore full ties with Qatar. His remarks came after Gulf...

GCC – What’s behind the latest GCC reconciliation efforts? (Farah Najjar, Al Jazeera)

At the start of 2020, talks to end the years-long Gulf diplomatic crisis abruptly came to an end. For nearly a whole year, the regional...

GCC – Dubai index leads gains in major stock markets in GCC (Al Arabiya)

Major stock markets in the Gulf rose early on Sunday amid firmer oil prices as investors focused on the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, with...

USA/GCC – Jared Kushner takes on Qatar blockade in Middle East ‘swan song’ (Joseph Stepansky, Al Jazeera)

Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and senior adviser to United States President Donald Trump, has travelled to the Gulf in the waning days of the...