Editing Foreign relations of China (section)

=====20th century=====
[[Republic of China (1912–1949)|China]] under the [[Kuomintang]] had established relations with Egypt and [[Saudi Arabia]] in the 1930s. The Chinese government sponsored students like [[Wang Jingzhai]] and [[Muhammad Ma Jian]] to go the [[Al-Azhar University]] to study. Pilgrims also made the [[Hajj]] to [[Mecca]] from China.<ref name="Masumi">{{cite web|url=http://science-islam.net/article.php3?id_article=676&lang=fr|title=The completion of the idea of dual loyalty towards China and Islam|last=Masumi|first=Matsumoto|access-date=28 June 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724054724/http://science-islam.net/article.php3?id_article=676&lang=fr|archive-date=24 July 2011|url-status=usurped}}</ref>
Chinese Muslims were sent to Saudi Arabia and Egypt to denounce the Japanese during the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]].<ref name="Masumi" /> The Fuad Muslim Library in China was named after King [[Fuad I of Egypt]] by the [[Hui people|Chinese Muslim]] Ma Songting.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MJzB6wrz6Q4C&q=ma+fuxiang+military+academy&pg=PA251|title=Intellectuals in the modern Islamic world: transmission, transformation, communication|author1=Stéphane A. Dudoignon|author2=Hisao Komatsu|author3=Yasushi Kosugi|year=2006|publisher=Taylor & Francis|page=251|isbn=978-0-415-36835-3|access-date=28 June 2010}}</ref> In 1939 [[Isa Yusuf Alptekin]] and Ma Fuliang were sent by the Kuomintang to the Middle eastern countries such as Egypt, [[Turkey]], and [[Syria]] to gain support during the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rsLQdBUgyMUC|title=Modern China's Ethnic Frontiers: A Journey to the West|author1-link=Lin Hsiao-ting|author=Hsiao-ting Lin|year=2010|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-58264-3|page=90}}</ref>

[[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] cut off the diplomatic relations with the Republic of China on Taiwan and established the new tie with the People's Republic of China in 1956. By the 1990s all Arab states had finished to recognize the People's Republic of China as the legitimate state of China.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}

The relations between China and the Arab League as an organization, officially started in 1956, yet it was in 1993, when the Arab League opened its first Office in China, when former Secretary general Essmat Abdel Megeed went to an official Visit to Beijing, in 1996, the Chinese leader Jiang Zemin visited the Arab League headquarters during his visit in Cairo, to become the first Chinese leader to have an official visit for the Arab League.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cascf.org/ara/gyam/zgyamgx/|title=中华人民共和国中阿合作论坛|publisher=Cascf.org|access-date=29 May 2020|archive-date=9 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100109035743/http://www.cascf.org/ara/gyam/zgyamgx/|url-status=dead}}</ref> China has continued to pay greater attention to the Middle East since the 2000s.<ref name="Atature-2023">{{Cite book|last=Atatüre|first=Süha|title=China and Eurasian Powers in a Multipolar World Order 2.0: Security, Diplomacy, Economy and Cyberspace|date=2023|publisher=[[Routledge]]|others=Mher Sahakyan|isbn=978-1-003-35258-7|location=New York|chapter=The US and China as Main Powers in Multipolar World Order 2.0|oclc=1353290533}}</ref>{{Rp|page=40}} With China, Middle Eastern countries benefit from a potential investment source and long-term buyer of oil and gas without the political complications that come with dealing with the United States.<ref name="Atature-2023" />{{Rp|page=40}}