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Xi’s Saudi Trip Could Set the Scene for Long-Term Changes: Expert

by Cobus van Staden
HEADLINE TRANSLATION: Chairman XI's visit to Saudi Arabia promotes new development of China-Saudi Arabia relations.

While Chinese government spokespeople have called President Xi Jinping’s visit to Saudi Arabia ‘epoch-making,’ they’ve been a lot vaguer about the agenda for his meetings. 

However, Tang Tianbo, a researcher at the Middle East Institute of the Chinese Institute of Contemporary International Relations, argued that a series of factors are aligning to make this visit particularly notable.

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