When US President Joe Biden accused Saudi Arabia of siding with Russia over oil, Riyadh cast itself as an emerging power that stands up to Washington and looks after its own interests—and that’s been winning cheerleaders. Know more:
When US President Joe Biden accused Saudi Arabia of siding with Russia over oil, Riyadh cast itself as an emerging power that stands up to Washington and looks after its own interests—and that’s been winning cheerleaders.
Crude prices falling would be more beneficial to Turkey, where energy costs have helped drive inflation to a two-decade high, but Ankara objects to the US threatening another country, a Turkish official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss government thinking. “This is part of China trying to shore up support elsewhere which it perceives can help strengthen ‘its’ side in the global confrontation with the United States,” said Raffaello Pantucci, a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore who researches China’s foreign relations.
Asked about China’s potential to fill the void in foreign economic relations with Saudi Arabia, US State Department spokesman Ned Price said the US weighs its national interests in its bilateral relationships. The 37-year-old “sees the emerging geopolitical order as malleable, made up of a set of interlocking parts, and he believes Riyadh has the right to work with a shifting constellation of partners to move markets and shape political outcomes.” The US is facing some blowback as it formulates foreign policy as a “values-based hierarchy” of engagement with democracies over non-democracies, Young wrote in response to questions from Bloomberg.
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