Charming the prince: Biden seeks a deal with Saudi Arabia
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
America is keen to mend the relationship between the Gulf state and Israel, but Muhammad bin Salman has hefty demands. Is the deal worth the price? Asia’s longest serving leader is carefully planning his succession, and crushing anyone who objects (10:41). And, Sweden’s plan for a new city is built on old materials. But it is posed to be an innovative model for sustainability (18:28).
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| 1:01.2 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm your host, Oire Ogunbeye. |
| 1:07.4 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:15.6 | Asia's longest serving leader is relinquishing power and growing increasingly paranoid about securing his legacy. |
| 1:23.6 | But support for his carefully orchestrated succession plans is far from universal. And, Sweden is building a brand new city by taking a new school approach to an old school material. Could this be the future of sustainable construction? action. construction. First up, though. |
| 1:58.0 | Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Muhammad bin Salman, or MBS, as he's often known, is currently at the center of a whirlwind of diplomacy. |
| 2:12.1 | This week, he's hosting Turkey's newly re-elected president, Racheb Tayyip Erdogan, as he begins a three-day tour of the |
| 2:19.4 | Gulf. |
| 2:25.4 | At the weekend, the de facto Saudi ruler met Japan's Prime Minister, Kishida Fumio, in Jeddah, |
| 2:32.3 | to discuss cooperation on energy supplies. |
| 2:35.5 | And just days ago, it was reported that MBS has been invited for an official visit to Britain later this year. |
| 2:43.3 | For a while, it looked like Saudi Arabia was out in the diplomatic cold. |
| 2:48.8 | The killing of the exile U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 |
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