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By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN
China and Saudi Arabia expressed aligned policies in a variety of spaces ranging from security to oil in a joint on Friday, adding that they would help each other without interfering in each other’s internal affairs.
The deal comes from Chinese President Xi Jinping’s scale in the kingdom and amid frayed ties between the United States and the two countries over oil production, human rights abuses and other issues.
The nearly 4,000-word set was published through the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) and expressed agreement on a number of far-reaching global issues, including energy, security, Iran’s nuclear program, the crisis in Yemen and Russia’s war against Ukraine. . .
Riyadh and Beijing were keen to stress “the importance of the stability of global oil markets,” noting that Saudi Arabia is a reliable exporter of crude oil to its Chinese partner. They also expressed their determination to “develop cooperation and coordination in the fields of defense,” in order to continue their cooperation in “combating terrorism and its financing. “
The declaration states that the countries “will firmly pursue each other’s respective core interests, each other in maintaining their sovereignty and territorial integrity, and making joint efforts to uphold the precept of non-interference in internal affairs. “State affairs, the rules of foreign law and the basic precepts of foreign relations.
This would come with not criticizing the domestic policies of others, possibly adding problems of human rights and national governance.
China also affirmed its “opposition to any action that interferes in the internal affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” explaining.
Both countries have been heavily criticized for their human rights records, and Washington has already cracked down on what it sees as a range of human rights violations and abuses committed through China and Saudi Arabia.
In June, the U. S. The U. S. government banned all products produced in China’s western region of Xinjiang, where the State Department estimates that, since 2017, up to two million Uighurs and members of other ethnic groups have been imprisoned in a murky network of internment camps where they are believed to be held. be “subjected to torture, ruthless and inhumane remedies such as physical and sexual violence, forced labour and death”. Chinese authorities have denied all allegations of human rights abuses in Xinjiang.
And in 2021, a report through the U. S. intelligence network was a report on the U. S. intelligence network. The U. S. Navy claimed that Saudi Crown Prince and de facto leader Mohammed bin Salman (known as MBS) was directly involved in an operation that led to the killing and dismemberment of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Xi landed in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Wednesday for a multi-day stopover in the oil-rich kingdom and received a warm welcome Thursday through MBS and other Saudi dignitaries. and cannon shots were fired. On Friday, Xi invited Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud to stop in China, according to Saudi state television.
Xi includes attending a “Saudi-China summit,” a Sino-Arab summit and a summit of the China-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), SPA reported.
On Thursday, China and Saudi Arabia signed a comprehensive strategic partnership agreement that includes a series of agreements and memoranda of understanding, adding hydrogen energy, coordination between the kingdom’s Vision 2030 and China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and on direct investment, SPA reported, offering details.
Xi’s warm welcome contrasts with the icy atmosphere surrounding U. S. President Joe Biden in the kingdom earlier this year.
Biden, who in the past had vowed to make Saudi Arabia a “pariah” after Khashoggi’s murder, said in October that the United States needed to “rethink” its relationship with the kingdom after the Saudi-led OPEC oil cartel cut oil production.
Washington has also been at odds with China over Taiwan, a democratically ruled island of 24 million other people that Beijing claims as its territory, never controlled it, and China’s greater influence in the Middle East.
Reacting to Xi’s scale in Riyadh, Washington said it was “not surprised” and “aware of the influence China seeks to expand in the world. “
Saudi Arabia has sought in recent years to diversify its alliances, especially amid growing complaints about the kingdom’s policies across the United States, such as what Gulf monarchies have perceived as a declining American security presence in the Middle East.
“At a time when Saudi Arabia must advance its economic diversification plans, China is a strong spouse and far less critical of other Western states,” Amena Bakr, OPEC’s lead correspondent at Energy Intelligence, wrote on Twitter.
Saudi analyst Ali Shihabi wrote that, from the Saudi perspective, there has been frustration that “American politicians continue to shape the Kingdom” through Khashoggi’s murder, the war in Yemen, and human rights.
“Even the United States, with all its capabilities, has spent two decades and billions of dollars and wasted countless lives seeking to reform Iraq and Afghanistan, only to fail miserably,” he wrote.
Saudi Arabia “follows a multipolar strategy of strategic ties,” Shihabi added.
He is coordinating with China, India, Russia on oil and with the United Kingdom and France as opportunities for the United States in arms sales, he said, “while maintaining a forged but inevitably bumpy relationship with its old friend the United States. “
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