ABSTRACT
Relations between East Asia and West Asia are as old as civilization itself, having resulted in the establishment of the world's most celebrated trade route, the much vaunted Silk Road which facilitated major trade across Asia. Bilateral trade between China and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) had reached $100 billion by 2010 and was expected to increase to $300 billion by 2020. Korean investments in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2011 had stood at $1. 24 billion and Korean construction firms, which form a central pillar of that country's prosperity, generated as much as 30 per cent of their revenues in the Middle East, especially in the GCC. Regions and indeed regional powers have come to occupy a central place at the security level, and in the post-Cold War international system have come to shape the very structure of international security.
