China Brokers Saudi-Iran Detente

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🗓️ 6 April 2023

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A.M. Edition for April 6. Saudi and Iranian foreign ministers have agreed to resume flights and reopen embassies closed since 2016. Journal foreign correspondent Stephen Kalin explains how China managed to broker a restoration of relations between the Middle East rivals. Plus, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the flagship search engine will feature artificial intelligence. Luke Vargas hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The scientists of today are creating the next big thing.
0:04.6	On the Wall Street Journal's future of everything podcast, get an early listen to what tomorrow
0:08.9	has in store.
0:10.9	Find us wherever you get your podcasts.
0:19.8	China brokers a deal between mid-east rivals leaving the US on the sidelines.
0:25.4	Plus Google plans to add artificial intelligence to its flagship search engine and why top US officials
0:31.4	want American businesses to invest in Africa.
0:34.7	The US is basically looking to get American companies more involved in a space that's
0:39.4	been dominated by Chinese companies for well over a decade.
0:43.8	It's Thursday, April 6th.
0:45.4	I'm Luke Vargas with the Wall Street Journal and here is the AM edition of What's News,
0:50.6	the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.
0:55.4	Saudi Arabia and Iran have agreed to restore direct flights and resume government and private
1:07.6	sector visits between the two countries.
1:10.4	That news was announced following a meeting in China between the Saudi and Iranian foreign
1:14.8	ministers and comes just weeks after the countries agreed to reestablish diplomatic relations
1:21.2	in a deal also brokered by China.
1:24.3	According to journal Foreign Correspondent Stephen Kaelin, that could signal a thawing of
1:29.3	one of the Middle East's thorniest rivalries.
1:32.7	And Stephen joins me now from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with the very latest on this.
1:37.0	Stephen, thank you for being with us.
1:38.6	Happy to be here.
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