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US President Joe Biden returns to Saudi Arabia on Friday July 15. The key is a reunion with the crown prince, Mohammed Ben Salman, whom he had placed as an outcast during his presidential campaign in 2020.
It is a journey in the form of renunciation of certain great ideals. US President Joe Biden arrives in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Friday July 15. He is going to meet the sulphurous crown prince there. Between Joe Biden and Mohammed Ben Salmane, it is the return to grace of the pariah. The bloody shadow of the Khashoggi affair, a Saudi journalist murdered in Turkey at the Saudi Arabian consulate, has poisoned relations with America for four years.
Donald Trump had let it pass, not Joe Biden. Before him, Emmanuel Macron had already met the crown prince last December. Forced reconciliation, Saudi Arabia is an essential energy power, and since then the war in Ukraine has strengthened its position, while oil prices and inflation soar. Joe Biden will therefore ask the Saudis and their allies in the Gulf to open the oil tap and increase production. In exchange, the United States should probably increase arms sales to the Saudis, and be tougher on their Houthi adversaries in Yemen.
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