This chapter examines Bahrain’s foreign policy amid intensifying great power competition, focusing on how the small Gulf monarchy navigates the strategic rivalry between the USA and China. While Bahrain remains a long-standing security partner of Washington, hosting the US Fifth Fleet and benefiting from deep defense-industrial ties, it has simultaneously expanded economic and technological cooperation with Beijing, culminating in its recent elevation to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership with China. This dual-track approach reflects a classic hedging strategy, enabling Bahrain to balance its reliance on US security guarantees with growing Chinese economic engagement. However, Bahrain’s agency is constrained by structural vulnerabilities, including internal sectarian tensions, external security dependence, and fiscal fragility. The chapter interrogates the instruments through which the USA and China influence Bahrain, from military alliances to digital infrastructure and trade. It argues that Bahrain’s strategic calculus is shaped less by ideological alignment than by pragmatic efforts to preserve autonomy, diversify partnerships, and navigate the shifting contours of an emerging multipolar order.