“I have complete confidence in the prospect of relations between Saudi Arabia and China…”
December 8 in Riyadh, the first day of the official visit he offers to Chinese President Xi Jinping, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, cannot say kind enough words for his visitor.
The opposite of the scene experienced in the same palace, on July 15, when the Saudi Arabian welcomed with a clenched fist (in Covid fashion) his visitor of the day, the American Joe Biden…
In April 2005, when George Bush had received the previous Saudi crown prince at his property in Texas, he made a point of recalling the interview which had taken place, sixty years earlier, the day after Yalta, in February 1945, aboard the cruiser
Quincy,
between Roosevelt and King Ibn Saud.
The two men, Bush recalled,
“had established a powerful personal bond that set the tone for decades of strong relations between the two nations”
… Did those
“strong”
relations live?
"A new era"
We are not…
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