The Middle Eastern tyrants, who "have a cloth on their heads, and I am the richest in the world", can't wait to make friends with China.
In October this year, Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed al-Jadan spoke highly of China
"When other countries shunned Africa, China stepped up. ”
At the same time, Jadan also publicly stated that "Saudi Arabia should cooperate with China, show goodwill to China, and strive to make the common framework work."
No, Saudi goodwill is coming.
Recently, Saudi Arabia's Minister of Investment Khaled al-Falih, who was visiting China, attended the China-Saudi Arabia Investment Conference in Beijing and sincerely extended an invitation to China
Saudi Arabia's current development direction is to catch up with the global clean energy transition, so Saudi Arabia has a "huge demand" and calls on Chinese companies to consider cooperating with Saudi Arabia.
Farah was very frank, stressing that the Saudi side "sincerely invites" the Chinese side to participate in the Saudi project.
So what exactly is the project?
It's hard to say in the long run, but in the short term, Saudi Arabia has just won the right to host the 2030 World Expo, saying that it has a budget of 7.8 billion US dollars.
This is equivalent to the fact that the list has been prepared in advance, and China, as a world-renowned "infrastructure madman", coupled with Saudi Arabia's eager invitation, is bound to take a big slice of the cake.
Then many people may be curious:
What's going on?Why do these Middle Eastern tyrants take a fancy to China and "throw money" at the slightest disagreement?
In fact, Saudi Arabia has long been familiar with the matter of releasing goodwill to China, and has done it many times, and the economic cooperation between China and Saudi Arabia has been expanding.
As you may recall, on March 10 this year, there was heavy news about the situation in the Middle East
Under the mediation of China, Saudi Arabia and Iran reached a rapprochement and announced the restoration of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Then, on March 27, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia's largest oil company, announced that it would spend US$3.6 billion (about 24.6 billion yuan) to acquire a 10% stake in Rongsheng Petrochemical, a Chinese listed company.
Some people may think that it is only more than 20 billion yuan, which is not just pocket money for the local tycoons in the Middle East.
But the key is that there is nearly half of the premium in this **In other words, money is secondary, and attitude is more important.
Believe it or not, at that time, Saudi Arabia also announced that it would invest $12.2 billion to build a large oil refinery with a daily output of 300,000 barrels in Northeast China.
In fact, for the past 10 years, China has been Saudi Arabia's largest partner, and the two sides are themselves in a state of economic complementarity
China is a major energy importer, Saudi Arabia has strong energy reserves, China's manufacturing industry is the world's first, and Saudi Arabia just needs a lot of construction resources.
Therefore, although it seems abrupt for Middle Eastern tycoons to "re-invest" on China, it is really not surprising, and the two sides themselves have established relatively close ties.
Many people should know that Saudi Arabia and the United States have always been allies, but the problem here is that Saudi Arabia regards the United States as a big brother, but the United States has always regarded Saudi Arabia as an "unjust seed".
In the 70s of the last century, the United States encountered a big problem:
Countries around the world have to exchange their dollars for ** and transport ** out of the Fed's underground vaults.
In particular, the French were the most excessive, throwing more than a billion dollars at one time and exchanging more than a dozen tons of **, and de Gaulle also specially sent ** escort.
But there are so many ** of the Federal Reserve, and if it continues like this, the dollar pegged to ** will soon collapse in credit and play directly.
So, at this time, Saudi Arabia appeared, and when the United States announced the decoupling of the dollar from **, Saudi Arabia picked up the baton and announced:
Later, oil transactions were all changed to US dollars.
As a hard currency in the global market, oil is inseparable from all countries, so the dollar escaped and established a strong dollar hegemony.
It is precisely because of this that Saudi Arabia has been sheltered by the United States and its security has been guaranteed.
However, the key is that the United States has treated Saudi Arabia as an "ATM" from beginning to end, and does not look down on this Middle Eastern tyrant at all.
In 2018, when Trump was in power, the "Khashoggi incident" brought the most crisis to Saudi Arabia, and as a result, Trump sold $300 billion in arms to Saudi Arabia with his backhand, and Saudi Arabia had to spend money to eliminate the disaster.
When Biden came to power, he went even further, and the "Khashoggi incident" was brought up again, and he directly angrily scolded the Saudis as "pariahs".
Saudi Crown Prince Salman countered that "the United States is not worthy of doing business with Saudi Arabia" and that "such scum will never be allowed to appear again on the land of Saudi Arabia."
Therefore, as Saudi Arabia said, "the old order of the United States providing Saudi security in exchange for low oil prices is dead", and since the United States is unreliable, Saudi Arabia must of course hurry to find a big tree.
Why did Saudi Arabia find China and bet heavily on China?
The answer is very simple, looking at the world, the only country that can "wrestle hands" with the United States to meet Saudi Arabia's needs is China.
And economically, China itself is also Saudi Arabia's "best partner".
Saudi Arabia made its fortune on oil, but this rich man is also scratching his head a little now:
Almost all countries in the world are engaged in new energy transformation, and in the future, everyone's demand for oil will be small, and Saudi Arabia will certainly not be able to play it.
Therefore, Saudi Crown Prince Salman put forward the famous "Saudi Vision 2030", which intends to reduce the proportion of the oil industry in the country, and increase the proportion of non-oil industry revenue to 70% by 2030.
But it's easy to say, Saudi Arabia, which has always made a fortune by selling oil, how can it be so easy to transform, and if Saudi Arabia really wants to realize the "Saudi Vision 2030", it can't do without China's help.
Salman proposed three directions for transformation, namely, increasing the output value of the oil industry, developing new energy industries and tourism.
The so-called increase in the output value of the oil industry is, to put it bluntly, not only selling oil, but also engaging in "deep processing" and refining it into various petrochemical products, and China wants to refine so much oil every year, and it is an expert in this regard, which can provide Saudi Arabia with a lot of technical assistance.
As for the new energy industry, in fact, it is mainly solar power generation, and it is a coincidence that China's photovoltaic production capacity is the first in the world.
Finally, if Saudi Arabia wants to develop tourism, then all kinds of infrastructure transformation must be indispensable, and China is full of experience, and no one dares to say that it is the first in terms of infrastructure.
That's why now we can see that Saudi Arabia, a group of Middle Eastern tycoons, is bent on making friends with China, and they do not hesitate to spend a lot of money.
Write at the end:
Behind Saudi Arabia's blue eye for China is actually the change in the global economic pattern, which is evolving from the unification of the United States in the past when it was the dominant power to the direction of diversification. Kunpeng Project