Amid growing strains with Iran, China is deepening its partnership with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf nations. In early December, President Xi Jinping paid Prince Mohammed bin Salman a visit. Iran felt snubbed. For years, China’s clout in the Middle...
The Sunni Arab world has trouble coming to terms with its past and imagining its future. It has been dominated by autocrats for the last 100 years. A new kind of pan-Arabism could be the next ideology that delivers freedom from autocracy to this region.
Since coming to power after the coup against the Mursi government, General Al-Sisi has sought to re-establish the foreign policy lines drawn in pre-revolutionary Egypt.
Turki bin Salman is the quiet money man, the consigliere, in the family business of Saudi Arabia’s King Salman. Turki’s star is rising as the already immense fortune of Salman’s immediate family continues to grow and grow.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman continues his ruthless campaign of suppressing critics and anyone else he deems a threat to his one-man rule.
The Saudi economy is buoyant while the Lebanese economy has collapsed, marking the contrasting fates of different players in the Middle East.
Despite the optics and the apparent climbdown by President Joe Biden amidst claims of Saudi resentment and a rupturing US-Saudi partnership, Chatham House’s Neil Quilliam and Azure Security’s Alice Gower argue that the relationship with Saudi Arabia though strained was never at serious risk.
A historic bribery case involving Saudi Arabia and an Airbus subsidiary comes before a UK court, threatening a much more recent Airbus deal masterminded by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
