U.S. President Donald Trump shakes fingers with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman throughout a welcoming ceremony in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Might 13, 2025.
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U.S. President Donald Trump is ready to fulfill with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday, with the leaders anticipated to debate the deepening of commerce and expertise ties, synthetic intelligence, safety and nuclear power.
The journey follows Trump’s go to to Saudi Arabia in Might through which the dominion made a $600 billion commerce and funding dedication to the U.S. Analysts say Trump will probably be seeking to cement these pledges this week.
“America desires Saudi Arabia to buy extra of its items and companies and enhance investments in U.S. corporations, and Saudi Arabia is in search of larger entry to U.S. tech and innovation to assist its formidable Imaginative and prescient 2030 reforms,” Tim Callen, visiting fellow on the Arab Gulf States Institute, stated forward of the assembly.
The U.S.-Saudi Funding Discussion board scheduled on Nov. 19 will probably be a possibility to seal extra financial offers between the 2 international locations, Callen stated, noting that Saudi Arabia desires a two-way avenue with Washington on the subject of investments.
“There’s little doubt that Saudi investments and purchases of U.S. merchandise will enhance. Nevertheless, it could be that U.S. investments into Saudi Arabia see the strongest development within the coming years given the improved funding local weather within the kingdom, alternatives supplied by Imaginative and prescient 2030, and availability of dependable low-cost power and considerable land to assist the enlargement of AI and associated actions of U.S. tech corporations,” Callen stated.
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The go to to the U.S. would be the first undertaken by Saudi Arabia’s defacto ruler since 2018, when Saudi brokers killed a journalist and high-profile critic of the Saudi regime, Jamal Khashoggi, in a Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
Mohammed bin Salman, or MBS as he is extensively recognized, denied ordering the killing however a U.S. intelligence report concluded the crown prince had accredited the operation.
Protests in Washington over the disappearance of outstanding Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Oct. 10, 2018.
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Because the widespread scandal across the killing, and criticism of Saudi’s report on the subject of gender equality and human rights usually, the dominion has seemed to rehabilitate its international picture. It has achieved this predominantly via seeking to dealer peace agreements within the Center East, and a push to host blockbuster sports activities occasions, such because the 2034 World Cup in males’s soccer.
Having seen its regional nemesis Iran largely weakened because of U.S. and Israeli joint strikes on the republic, Saudi Arabia has seen its personal dominance develop and has positioned itself as a key strategic ally to the U.S. within the area.