“For the Biden administration, challenging China’s rising influence in the Middle East and other parts of the world is a high priority,” Giorgio Cafiero, CEO of Washington DC based consultancy Gulf State Analytics told Insider.
In an indication of the rapidly-shifting power dynamics in the region, Sullivan offered the Saudis lucrative infrastructure investment to improve links between railways and ports in Gulf states and India, one of the world’s fastest growing economies and a geopolitical rival of China, reports say,
“This is part of a US led effort to push back against Beijing. The United States might not always make that point clear or say it directly, but everyone knows that that is the case,” said Cafiero.
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