Taiwan, Iran and the New Great-Power Bargain

by May 2026

Mordechai Chaziza offers an in-depth analysis of the meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, suggesting that it may go far beyond trade, tariffs, or diplomatic theater.
At stake, he argues, could be something far more consequential: the emergence of a new great-power equation.
A Senior Lecturer at Ashkelon Academic College and a Research Fellow at the University of Haifa, Mordechai Chaziza has spent years examining how Beijing methodically expands its influence across the Middle East and Africa.

Mordechai Chaziza
The writer is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Governance and the Division of Multidisciplinary Studies in Social Science at Ashkelon Academic College, and a Research Fellow at the Asian Studies Department at the University of Haifa. He specializes in China’s foreign policy and strategic engagement in the Middle East and North Africa.