Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping carried a message: If Washington intends to pivot its policy toward Asia, then so can Riyadh, but with the aim of turning Beijing into a friend rather than an adversary.
It was no fleeting fist bump, but a five-second handshake. And rather than a grimace and stiff hello, there were smiles and warm words of greeting.
On only his third trip outside China in nearly three years, Xi landed in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday for a trio of summits: the first, on Thursday, with his hosts, King Salman and his son the crown prince, who is the kingdom’s de facto ruler and newly appointed prime minister; the second a gathering of leaders of Persian Gulf nations, including Oman, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain; and the third a pan-Arab confab that, according to Saudi state media, will bring together more...
And on Thursday, Saudi state media reported the signing of 35 new deals worth $29.6 billion, a memorandum of understanding with China’s Huawei Technologies on cloud computing and smart complexes for Saudi cities, and a “comprehensive strategic partnership agreement” between the two countries, though it remains unclear what that agreement would entail.A federal judge has dismissed a U.S. lawsuit against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the killing of U.S.
U.S.-Saudi relations are at a nadir. Biden won no favors with the crown prince when he vowed on the campaign trail tofor the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. The prince denies involvement in the killing.
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