Saudi Arabia Offers to Mediate Between China and the U.S.

Saudi Arabia’s Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan said the Kingdom hopes to assist the U.S. and China to improve their relationship. Fayez Nureldine / AFP

Saudi Arabia is willing to help improve the relationship between the superpowers. Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan said during a panel discussion at the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh: “If there are opportunities that we can make the relationship between U.S. and China better, we will. We enjoy a very good strategic relationship with the U.S. China is our largest trading partner. So, we need to maintain that relationship.”

Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the UN Security Council that he will coordinate with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi to prevent the conflict in the Middle East from escalating. Wang is visiting Washington and is expected to meet Blinken on Thursday.

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