Despite its widely disruptive effects, the COVID-19 pandemic has left relations between the major Asian powers – China, India, and Japan – and the Gulf states largely intact. Yet, Asia-Gulf relations face a growing number of challenges, including great-power competition in the Indo-Pacific and long-term energy trends, among others, that may shape the future trajectory of these ties.

What are the core strategic objectives that now underpin Asian-Gulf relations and to what extent have they changed over the course of the pandemic? What factors are shaping the growing political, defence and security engagement between Asia and the Gulf? And what effects will geopolitical competition in the Indo-Pacific or the Gulf have on Asia-Gulf relations?

Yuka Koshino, Dr Hasan Alhasan, Viraj Solanki, Camille Lons and Emile Hokayem discuss the current developments.

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