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2/2: #SaudiArabia: Riyadh entertains going East to Beijing and not West to DC & what is to be done? Orde Kittrie, FDD

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🗓️ 6 May 2023

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2/2: #SaudiArabia: Riyadh entertains going East to Beijing and not West to DC & what is to be done? Orde Kittrie, FDD
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/04/28/the-united-states-and-saudi-arabia/


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0:39.4

foundation for the defensive democracies with this colleagues' recommendation for what

0:43.5

is to be done to win the attention of Riyadh and Mohammed bin Salman. Now understood to

0:50.5

be leaning towards Beijing in the future. Terrorism and human rights, they can go together

0:56.5

and because or the terrorism story is taken a back seat momentarily to the war in

1:03.7

Ukraine, what is it that the US can offer Riyadh, especially because terrorism and human

1:10.8

rights can go together? I think it is no secret that Riyadh treats criminals, treats people

1:17.2

that regards as vagrants or lawbreakers with horrible endings. Is that a conversation

1:24.2

between Washington and Riyadh? It absolutely has to be a conversation between Washington and

1:31.7

Riyadh. Jake Sullivan in a speech yesterday, right before traveling to Saudi Arabia, reiterated

1:39.0

that the US values human rights and will continue to promote human rights. It believes that

1:45.9

the world is a more stable place when human rights are respected, when people can hold their

1:52.8

governments accountable, governance is better, and the US also believes it is a US value promoting

1:59.3

human rights. Obviously there has been a lot of tension between the US and Saudi Arabia over

2:05.4

human rights, exemplified by the death of Jamal Khashoggi, who was a Saudi national, US

2:12.6

permanent resident, writer for the Washington Post, who was killed during a visit to the Saudi

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