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00:00We have seen China trying to take on a mediating role, bringing together the disparate Palestinian factions to try and get agreement there, to provide a suitable alternative during the peace negotiations.
00:15Do you think that the U.S. has languished its role as a global diplomat and now China has had to pick up that mantle?
00:23No. I think, in fact, the Chinese role in the Middle East has not been particularly strong, neither militarily nor diplomatically.
00:35The United States is working now with the new government of Syria, with the new government of Lebanon, working with the Israelis, Palestinians, Jordanians, Egyptians to try to get some kind of peace agreement in Gaza.
00:52I think, in fact, China's influence in the Middle East diplomatically and militarily is quite limited.