The US plans to promote superior F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, considered one of a number of offers anticipated to emerge from in the present day’s talks between their leaders.
Whereas US President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s Oval Workplace assembly might end in the protection sale — and doubtlessly a civil nuclear deal — greater points are nonetheless in flux.
With the Center East safety order altering quick, Riyadh is pushing for a US safety assure and is publicly pivoting away from Beijing to be able to deepen ties with Washington. Individually, as Semafor’s Gulf Editor notes in an upcoming column, an out of date narrative of bottomless Saudi oil wealth is butting up in opposition to the fact that Riyadh, like Washington, is courting overseas funding.
A chart exhibiting world arms imports by nation.