Aramco’s New Deals With China Signal A Further Deepening Of Sino-Saudi Relations

A little under a year before the Russian invasion of February 2022, Saudi Aramco’s chief executive officer, Amin Nasser, had spent several days at the annual China Development Forum hosted in Beijing, during which time he stated: “Ensuring the continuing security of China’s energy needs remains our highest priority - not just for the next five years but for the next 50 and beyond.” On last week’s anniversary of the ‘9/11’ multiple terrorist attacks on the U.S. that killed 2,996 people, Aramco announced…