Expert: China Is Losing Ground In The Middle East

Then-US Assistant Secretary of Near Eastern Affairs David Schenker (C)visits at military base in Al-kharj in central Saudi Arabia, on September 05, 2019. Schenker said during a talk he gave this month at the Washington-based Jewish Policy Center on “Saudi Arabia in a Period of Change.” FAYEZ NURELDINE/JNS

Only the United States can integrate an Arab air defense against Iran, David Schenker, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said during a talk at the Washington-based Jewish Policy Center on “Saudi Arabia in a Period of Change.”