Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Saudi Arabia for several days, during which he will take part in a regional summit meeting more than 30 heads of state and business leaders. #China #SaudiArabia #GCC #Arabworld

"Xi Jinping will arrive in Riyadh on Wednesday on a long awaited visit to a regional ally that has readied full state pageantry and a round of agreements likely to cement ties between China and Saudi Arabia – and deepen alarm in Washington.

China’s president will meet more than 30 heads of state and business leaders during his three-day visit to the Saudi capital, which is set to lead to a “strategic agreement” between the authoritarian powers. The trip is the culmination of decades of cooperation once based on oil sales, which has grown into bilateral trade of close to $90bn a year.

The reception that awaits Xi is on a scale of that afforded to Donald Trump during the early months of his administration and is in stark contrast to the low key and largely fruitless visit of his successor, Joe Biden, to Jeddah in August." 

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