The young and ambitious Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Salman (MBS) - de facto ruler of the kingdom due to the advanced age of his father King Salman - had dreamed of a completely different G20.
For the first time, an Arab country is hosting this annual meeting of world leaders.
But - pandemic obliges - this G20 is being held by videoconference, without the coming of the Heads of State and Government in Riyadh, without the possibility of showing them the futuristic city of Neom or the wonders of the Nabataean site of al-Houla in the desert.
In short, a G20 at a discount, very far from the public relations operation it was supposed to be.
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Saudi Arabia has done everything possible to obtain the organization of the G20 which symbolized the entry of the kingdom into the international elite
", notes the researcher Marc Martinez, a fine connoisseur of the country.
But this scenario was first turned upside down by the assassination of dissident Jamal Khashoggi at the end of 2018 at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in Turkey.
If Donald Trump and his father, the king,
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