Asim Saleem Bajwa was appointed by Khan as the chairman of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) authority and Pakistan’s ambassador to SaudiArabia, Bilal Akbar, is a former three-star general.
The other parties with which China has cultivated closer economic ties – SaudiArabia, the UAE, Israel, Egypt, and Turkey – have less of a sanguine perspective.
Read: Army to Protect Pakistan’s Troubled Ties with SaudiArabiaIn the current context, with cross-border terrorism a major regional feature, the region is once again of huge – even essential – importance to both Pakistan and Afghanistan.
n an attempt to undo the damage by President Trump’s dangerous quid pro quo foreign policy and blatant disregard for human rights and international law, in early February, the Biden administration pledged to conduct a strategic review of the United States’ relations with SaudiArabia.
Iran’s leadership seeks to challenge the status quo and empower the so-called “Axis of Resistance” in its struggle against the US, Israel, and SaudiArabia.
Djibouti hosts military bases belonging to Germany, Spain, Italy, France, the United States, the United Kingdom, China, and SaudiArabia at a very little distance from one another.
Nonetheless, the growing presence of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the region, the emergence of Lebanese Hezbollah in the early 1980s with Iran’s full backing, and the unwillingness of some Arab regimes including, but not limited to, Egypt and SaudiArabia, for a rapprochement with a “revolution-exporting Iran” undermined the prospects for normalization throughout the 1990s.
Seventy-six Saudi nationals have thus been subjected to a visa ban, as members of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's (MBS) security detail, known as the Rapid Intervention Force, were added to the sanctions list.
Read: How Will Antony Blinken Handle US Foreign Policy on Syria, Turkey and Yemen?The Obama administration used the 9/11 attacks as leverage against the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, particularly SaudiArabia, which disturbed bilateral affairs as Saudi assets were jeopardized with 28 ongoing lawsuits.
In fact, TRT World, Turkey’s state-owned international news outlet, once critically noted the similarity between Al-Arabiya (SaudiArabia-owned) and Al-Jazeera in their coverage of Turkey’s operation against the PKK in Syria.
His moves regarding Israel and SaudiArabia, breaking various arms control treaties, making the Space Force a full military "service", got the US establishment things it clearly wanted but decorum wouldn't allow.
heikh Yamani, SaudiArabia’s former oil minister (1962-86) once quipped that that the Age of Oil, like the Age of Stone, would come to an end long before the world ran out of oil.
Read: How Turkey and SaudiArabia Compete in the BalkansThe importance of this potential development for Kosovo cannot be overstated as a (quasi) single-party government can bring forth a long-awaited political stability that is indispensable for domestic institutional building, advancing reciprocity in negotiations with Serbia, and last but not least, implementing a more coherent and uniform plan in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.