While America Was Distracted… Saudi Arabia and China Built Power
EverydaySpy Podcast
Andrew Bustamante
4.6 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What Saudi Arabia's relationship with China? |
| 0:02.7 | This is something I have no idea. |
| 0:03.8 | You guys are much more qualified. |
| 0:05.8 | I don't know a ton about this either. |
| 0:08.0 | The whole, I mean, I'm totally riffing because I love this shit, dude. |
| 0:13.1 | I know you do. |
| 0:14.3 | Your entire Kaleiji Arab oil-rich area, right? |
| 0:20.7 | Your UAE's, your Saudi Arabia's your Kuwaits |
| 0:24.2 | omans Bahrain's that whole center of the of the world where oil comes out of the |
| 0:31.0 | ground in the water right where nothing but oil and fig come out of the ground |
| 0:34.6 | right that or not fig uh poppy oil and dates oil and dates right that is |
| 0:44.8 | that was the first probably most pragmatic place in the planet right these you're talking about |
| 0:52.0 | bedouin arabs who before 1955 had nothing. |
| 0:58.0 | They had nothing. There was no natural resource in the desert until the British came and found oil and then started signing deals with families to drill rights to their oils. |
| 1:07.8 | And that's when everything exploded, right? 1970 something was when you really saw the Middle East transform. |
| 1:13.5 | They are absolutely super pragmatic. |
| 1:15.9 | They understand more than any of us that they have a natural resource and a natural |
| 1:20.3 | resource has a limited time span. |
| 1:21.8 | And when that natural resources time span is up, the whole world is going to leave them |
| 1:25.0 | again because that's where they started. |
| 1:26.9 | If you think about it, the same generation is going to leave them again because that's where they started. If you think about |
| 1:27.7 | it, the same generation, like the same generation is alive today in UAE that was also alive |
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