Lloyd Austin's Middle East visit: Deescalating West Bank tensions high on the agenda, says academic
Dalia Dassa Kaye of UCLA's Burkle Center for International Relations discusses U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's trip to the Middle East and says "the Russia angle and the China angle will be a bit of an uphill battle." Kaye believes that Austin will have a difficult time convincing Middle Eas

Dalia Dassa Kaye of UCLA's Burkle Center for International Relations discusses U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's trip to the Middle East and says "the Russia angle and the China angle will be a bit of an uphill battle."
Kaye believes that Austin will have a difficult time convincing Middle Eastern countries to distance themselves from Russia and China, two countries with which they have strong economic ties.