“
The Saudis have emphasised in recent years that they seek to avoid entanglement in what is referred to in the US as ‘great power competition’,” Gerald Feierstein, a
former US ambassador to Yemen
and the Middle East
Institute’s senior vice president, told Al Jazeera. “
Their interests, the Saudis have made clear, have focused on maintaining strong relations
with their main security partner, the US; their number one economic partner, China;
and their key partner in OPEC+, Russia.” We've been hearing that Conservative MP
and Penny Mordaunt supporter George Freeman has urged Mordaunt to step aside as a leadership contender,
and make a deal
with Rishi Sunak.
irannews.ru "They just left a mess. Mess and pain," says Alyona. "When I came here for the first time after liberation, I just stood here and cried. It's really hard." Many of them finished their tests early, she added - and nobody was caught cheating this year. A string of the professor's Facebook posts - showing the youngsters wearing their elaborate creations - garnered thousands of likes in a matter of days, and attracted coverage from Fili
pino media outlets. Mao had closed China's economy off from the world. Now his successors were throwing it open. In 2001 China joined the World Trade Organisation. Along the southeast coast new cities mushroomed. Some specialised in buttons and zippers, others made cigarette lighters. In Zhejiang I found one that only made socks, tens of billions of them. "China is now doing all sorts of things that it's always wanted to do but wasn't powerful enough to do," Mr McGregor says. "Taiwan was always there. The South China Sea was always there. Taking on America, driving it out of Asia was always an ambition, but they didn't say it out loud."
