The geopolitical and geostrategic imperatives of the MEGMER are likely to undergo a colossal paradigm shift to adjust to the ramifications of President Trump’s vision and the current US approach to the region!

US and Chinese interests are now likely to clash more stridently in the ME. China has a twenty- five-year strategic cooperation agreement with Iran worth USD 400 billion. It has a major stake in Iran’s economy and its survival as an independent and sovereign country. The US-Israel combine and its European allies, on the other hand, seek a sanctioned, subdued, destabilised, nonnuclear and essentially subservient Iran. It suits their interests in the ME-GMER as it will hinder China’s ingress into it and by implication across the Persian Gulf onto the Arabian Peninsula, Africa and even Europe through the Mediterranean Sea and Turkey. It literally blocks the BRI-CPEC’s ingress into the region. The geopolitical implications thereof are that submitting to the emerging US policy imperatives in the ME and accepting its restructuring of the region will go against China’s interests there. It portends a severe polarisation and destabilisation of the region. All regional players, especially Pakistan, will now require incisive strategic vision, clear-eyed foresight, and imaginative, innovative, courageous and learned leadership to chart a course to secure their own core national interests without prejudice to their relationships with either global power!

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