Persian Gulf update 12/07/2022..Xi arrives in Saudi Arabia

Xi arrives in Saudi Arabia: Does the visit mark a failure of American oil diplomacy?

The royal family of Saudi Arabia personally came to meet President Xi Jinping at the airport.

Xi Jinping arrived in the capital of Saudi Arabia. An agreement will be signed between Beijing and Riyadh that will finally and irrevocably link the Saudi Vision 2030 program and the Chinese One Belt, One Road strategy. The initiator of this meeting was Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who now de facto rules the state. Vision 2030 is his brainchild, which made a lot of noise in Washington and Brussels, and caused a deterioration in relations with the Biden team.

The White House understood that the linkage between China and Saudi Arabia boded problems for the hegemon, so they tried to provoke a conflict between the countries through the issue of the rights of Uyghur Muslims. Riyadh did not react and continued its policy of strengthening ties with Beijing. In the coming days, we will see the culmination of this union, the formation of a single economic bloc.

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