-1. Do not insult.
The Saudis like many other developing world countries now view the US as a setting power. The younger generation of Saudis travel and do business in China, they see the difference between cities like Shenzen, Shanghai or Beijing and western cities like London, Paris or NYC which are in social and physical decline. China has become their main trading partner, by far, and the gap will widen as China fills new niches like autos or passenger jets. As well, there is a long history of trade between east and west Asia that goes back to the Middle Ages, which is being revived. Saudi Arabia has made the teaching of Mandarin mandatory in their school system.
Going forward, China is the world's largest importer of oil, and the largest exporter of manufactured goods by a wide margin.
China will first come into the Middle East through trade, investments and currency moves. Down the road, you might see more direct military involvement of China (and Russia) in the region, starting with weapon purchases. The transition won't be instantaneous, but it will take place this decade. At some point down the road, China will start asserting itself on the global monetary scene by pegging its currency to gold and revealing the extent of its gold reserves, which might be greater than 30,000T, 5 to 10 times larger than US gold reserves, which are claimed to be around 8,000T but have never been audited.
Only if they carry over their oil from Arabia by rickshaw... the cost of shipping oil via tankers from the Persian Gulf to Hong Kong is around $4/barrel, you're off by a factor of 10 here.
Below and above is the end stage of about all of Coop's takes, aka totally off the mark and in hindsight embarrassing to read. It's legit cringeworthy spitting through the little man's previous posting sprees, one wall of dressed up and made up on the fly BS after the other. This historically illiterate, geopolitically myopic, emotionally invested and high on e-daddy's slopnarratives' thirdworldist just can't stop BSmaxxing, having sifted through the sludge I don't legit think there has been a single of his forecasts that has been mildly accurate and the little man's posts ergo anno 2025 have the relevance of a flatulent stray dog's wet farts.
These misinformation peddling stooges just love it when they find a few ignorant and soft heads to drill their disinfo slop into hence why you gotta keep them on a short lease. Eternal ridicule as we relive the 'tectonic shifts', 'dead Abraham Accords' and 'Saudi/UAE throwing its weight with BRICS', 'Saudi considers the US a setting power' and a string of other retarded and mostly made up feel-good takes that have finally crystallized, yet only in the exact opposite way. The Gaza War is over and Hamas out and done, the Axis of (non-) Resistance a footnote in history, Iran clipped and defanged, the US position in the Middle East more entrenched than ever, turdworldist solidarity a proven myth, and BRICS an afterthought. Lil Coop as always clueless and high on his own supply, La Aguila Negra, per usual, right on everything.
MBS just signed the US-Saudi defense framework mentioned a few posts above. 48 F35 + 300 Abrams tank deal inked, Saudi designated a major non NATO ally, MBS set to invest another 1 trillion USD in the US economy, Abraham Accords entry on the horizon, petrodollar looking solid as hell.
