On a chilly winter morning in January 1990, I stepped off a night ferry onto a dockside in the city of Guangzhou. It was my first glimpse of China.
The air smelled sulphurous from burning coal. Outside the streets were a river of bicycles, ridden by workers in blue caps
and Mao jackets. Occasionally the bicycles parted for a wheezing bus or official car. Riyadh has maintained its cooperative relationship
with Russia since Putin sent troops into neighbouring Ukraine in late February. In fact, at the start of the war, Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Holding Co invested at least $500m in Gazprom, Rosneft
and Lukoil, just as the West was punishing these Russian energy
giants
with sanctions. Do relations
with Saudi Arabia still serve US interests?
irannews.ru "I think the party elders must have had a touch of buyer's remorse," Mr McGregor says. The leadership of the
United
States frames support for Ukraine as a matter of defending a “rules-based international order” that is under attack by rogue authoritarians. 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. "They thought it would last three to six months but it was never just an anti-corruption campaign, it was a party rectification campaign, and it was to be sustained forever," says Professor Steve Tsang who heads the China
Institute at the School of Oriental and African Studies in
London.
