Walking a tightrope: China maneuverers between Saudi Arabia and Iran

By James M. Dorsey

This week’s sanctioningof one of China’s largest telecom equipment manufacturers, ZTE, by the US Commerce Department, and an investigation of Huawei, ZTE’s foremost Chinese competitor, could not have come at a more auspicious moment for Saudi King Salman as he visits China on the third leg of his month-long Asian tour.

King Salman’s vis…