Answering questions on Tuesday about when Biden would speak to the Prime Minister of the Desert Kingdom, Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, press secretary Jen Psaki replied: “We have been informed from the beginning that we will reconsider our relationship with Saudi Arabia.”
“And some of that is a relationship with a partner, a partner with a partner. The president’s partner is King Salman, and I expect that, at the right time, he will have a conversation with him. I have no speculation about the timing. That.”
Whether the protocol is strict or aimed at lowering MBS ratings, the move reflects Biden’s public dissatisfaction with waiting for the CIA to uncover the plot to assassinate Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October 2018.
On the campaign trail, Biden said he would treat Saudi Arabia as “negligent.” NSA spokesman Avril Haines says she will publish a report on Khashoggi’s brutal assassination at the hands of a Saudi agent at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
Psaki may be given diplomatic guidance to end the noble relationship and cut the corner that MBS prefers under former President Donald Trump. Unpredictable princes often cross over to the State Department through telephone conversations and dinners with Jared Kushner, Trump’s son, and the Middle East Special Adviser.
MBS has been informed so the public will be ashamed that he can not hide, but it does not mean that he will not be in Biden’s claim to the king.
MBS is the force behind the empire and the vision that determines the future of the country. To assume that MBS would not know if Biden was speaking to the king or would not respond to any form would be to estimate his compensation.
But perhaps what President Biden’s interests are not the impact that the diplomatic debate will have on the kingdom, but how it will sound around the world.
The main theme of the President’s foreign policy speech earlier this month was the promotion of human rights, and the power that flows from it.
“Defending Liberty. Opportunity to be a champion. Swap global rights. Respect the law. And treat everyone with dignity. That is the foundation of our global policy. Our global authority. That is our indispensable source of strength.”
With that in mind, Biden plans to use allied help to recruit China, his biggest foreign policy challenger.
“We will confront China’s economic atrocities, counter its atrocities and coercion to bolster China’s attacks on human rights, intellectual property and governance around the world,” he said.
“It was [Chinese Communist Party’s] The diplomatic establishment fears that the Biden administration, recognizing that the United States will soon be incompatible with Chinese power, may form an effective ally of democracies around the world with a view to balancing China as a whole. In particular, CCP leaders fear that President Joe Biden’s proposal to hold the world’s most important democracy summit is a first step in that direction, “Rudd wrote.
Little surprise that Saudi Arabia, a friend and ally of the sea of ​​challenges he faced from China, gradually emerged from Biden’s playbook.
Telling the Saudis that he no longer wants their war in Yemen, including the sale of precision-guided bombs that helped make military propaganda possible, was one of Biden’s first foreign policy stimuli. He said he was only providing them diplomatically.
Several Saudi sources have indicated that both sides have recently maintained a long-term relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia. Indeed, insiders at the venue said several months ago that they expected they would have suffered when Biden went to the White House, but were expected to recover later.
But lesser-known figures remain in custody, and a key White House partner, Obama-Biden, ex-Mohammed bin Nayef, remains under house arrest, according to sources familiar with the situation. How the MBS handled those detentions foretold how the Crown Prince would be willing to bend, and how Biden would be willing to put pressure on the Saudi government.
For now the message has been heard, and absorbed. Punch resistance is not possible. Saudi Arabia’s relationship with the United States extends to generations of presidents and kings. This is probably what Slovaks are most concerned about.
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