Analyzing China's presence in the Persian Gulf vis-a-vis the United States from the point of view of Robert Pipe's soft balancing policy

It is important to examine the behavior of different actors in the field of the international system that are directly related to Iran's security-political strategies. The People's Republic of China wants to play a more important role and improve its position in the strategic region of the Middle East. The main driver of the People's Republic of China in becoming more active in the Persian Gulf is the need for oil and gas energy and, in parallel, the country's ideological role in foreign policy is fading. It is from the eighties onwards. The purpose of the current research is to answer this basic question, what is the presence of China in the Persian Gulf in relation to the United States of America from the point of view of Robert Pipe's soft balancing policy? In this article, we rely on the method of collecting and analyzing information from reliable library sources and internet articles and inspired by Robert Pipe's theory of soft equilibrium. The necessity of doing this article is that with the intensification of the decline of American power in the world, China today wants a stronger position in the international system. The results of the present study show that China, in parallel with the increase in its need for fossil energy, oil and gas, and its extensive presence in The format of various commercial and economic cooperations in the form of exporting goods and services with the main actors of the Persian Gulf.