Saudi King Salman signed a “comprehensive strategic partnership agreement” with Chinese President Xi, who received a lavish welcome in a country forging new global partnerships beyond the West.
The United States, warily watching China’s growing sway and with its ties to Riyadh at a nadir, said on Wednesday that Xi’s trip was an example of Chinese attempts to exert influence around the world and would not change U.S. policy toward the Middle East.A memorandum with China’s Huawei Technologies, on cloud computing and building high-tech complexes in Saudi cities, was agreed despite U.S. unease with Gulf allies over a possible security risk in using the Chinese firm’s technology.
In an op-ed published in Saudi media, Xi said he was on a “pioneering trip” to “open a new era of China’s relations with the Arab world, the Arab countries of the Gulf, and Saudi Arabia.” That sentiment was echoed by the crown prince, who said his country opposed any “interference in China’s internal affairs in the name of human rights,” Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said.
Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states like the United Arab Emirates have said that they will not choose sides between global powers and are diversifying partners to serve national economic and security interests.
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