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This paper analyzes China’s increasing interest in and engagement with the Middle East, which is partially driven by Xi Jinping’s One Belt, One Road initiative and the threats posed by Uighur Islamists in Xinjiang province. The text’s author further explores1) how the region might put China’s principle of non-intervention in the internal/external affairs of other nations to the test, particularly given the near-impossible challenge of not becoming embroiled in the Middle East’s rivalries; 2) how Beijing might work constructively with the US in this part of the world; and 3) what role the burgeoning Chinese Navy might play in nearby waters.