#sino-arab relations
Chinese President Xi Jinping is visiting Cairo later this week, marking his first official state visit to Egypt. Over the past two years, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has worked to diversify Egypt’s international partnerships away from its reliance on the United States by building strong relations with France, Russia and now China. However, the nature of Sino-Egyptian relations must be approached from a different perspective than that of France or Russia. For one, military cooperation between the two countries is…