#silk road
Cairo has always mastered the art of political acrobatics, playing East and West off each other to ensure its own profit. During the Cold War, it was former President Gamal Abd El-Nasser who first “shocked the West by approaching the Soviet Union, buying military equipment through Czechoslovakia, and igniting fears of a Middle Eastern arms race,” according to Foreign Policy. Six decades later, Cairo is once again seeking to strengthen Eastern ties with Beijing while maintaining a complex relationship with…
