Welcome back to New World next week. I'm James Corbett of Corporate Report.com.

I'm James Evan Palado of MediaMonarchy.com Western military harvesting Russian genes.

And we don't mean denim. We got that story plus perusing the

Paradise Papers. But first, we continue to shine a light on the agenda known as Vision

2030. As we begin with an article from nike.com, Saudi Purge brings China card into play

in Aramco deal. Plans to list shares of Sadie Aramco, the world's biggest oil producer,

have taken a new twist in recent weeks with talks of selling shares directly to China or other

institutional investors first rather than going to the stock exchange. Adding to the uncertainty

is the anti-corruption crackdown being carried out by the crown prince

Muhammad bin Salman, in which a number of influential princes and senior officials have

been implicated, arrested, and or, you know, killed in a helicopter crash of convenience,

including an Aramco board member who has also been arrested.

The Aramco IPO forms the centerpiece of Vision 2030, a blueprint for economic and social

reforms meant to diversify and re-energize Saudi Arabia's oil-dependent economy.

The proceeds from the sale are to be used to foster domestic industry and create jobs.

The plan is to sell a combined total of around 5% of Aramco shares next year on the Saudi stock exchange.

Prince Muhammad expressed his enthusiasm to sell Aramco shares early last year and has stated that the company

should be valued at more than $2 trillion. That would entail the largest IPO in history, dwarfing the, what would be the

previous record of 25 billion by China's Alibaba. So, James, can you give us some 20-20 vision on this

2030 agenda? As you and I, I think, have been talking about this since they first kind of announced

it. And that goes back to New World next week in April of 2016, James.

That's right.

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