String Of LNG Deals Moves Qatar Closer To China

The world’s top liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter, Qatar, has long occupied a political position in the Middle East that has neither been decisively aligned with the U.S.-Israel-Saudi axis of power nor with the Iran-China-Russia one. More recently, though, there appears to have been a move further away from the U.

S.-led sphere of influence and towards the China-led one. This was partly due to the three-year freeze in diplomatic relations with key U.S. allies Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt based on accusations that Qatar supports…