Chinese President Xi Jinping recently concluded a multi-day trip to Saudi Arabia, which included a Chinese state visit to Saudi Arabia, the first-ever China–Arab States Summit, and a China–Gulf Cooperation Council Summit. In the Kingdom, China and Saudi Arabia signed…
Former President Donald Trump dispensed with the handwringing usually on display when U.S. presidents have cozied up to Saudi Arabia. He purposefully began his first trip abroad in Riyadh. The author of an executive order known as the Muslim ban…
At about the time President Joe Biden left for his trip to the Middle East, rapper Snoop Dogg advertised his new brand of cannabis called “Sleepy Joe OG,” which features a picture of a befuddled Biden on the label. It…
President Joe Biden is preparing to head to Saudi Arabia, or so goes the chatter in Washington. He wants to repair relations with Riyadh, which means groveling before rulers even more bloodstained than Vladimir Putin. Observed the Atlantic Council’s Daniel…
Is Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ignoring Joe Biden? It certainly feels that way. Ever since Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline in June as a gesture to the environmental lobbyists and banned imports of Russian oil as…
Four years ago, after Donald Trump was elected president, the Left was suffering a collective mental breakdown. The new fascist era was upon us. American democracy was over. All good people of principle, meaning progressives, would end up in chains…
Yemen has long been the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Slaughtered civilians. Wrecked infrastructure. Millions hungry. Cholera epidemic. Now COVID-19 is afflicting the vulnerable population. “Yemen is really on the brink right now. The situation is extremely alarming, they are talking…
It is an honest puzzlement. So let’s get riyal. The Financial Dilemma: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinar On the one hand, we have a $110 billion pending arms deal with the Saudis. That amounts to tens of thousands of American jobs….
After spending the last two weeks lying about Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi — claiming that he left the consulate in Istanbul — Riyadh is lying again. He died, the regime now insists, in a fist fight. The royal family left…