China's business ties with the Middle East are getting ever closer, underpinning its growing diplomatic efforts in the region.
Anyone doubting China’s rapidly growing economic clout in the Middle East need only to have heard Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister speaking at a major business conference held in Riyadh last week.
“China is the biggest trade partner for Arab countries,” Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud told an audience of Saudi royals, corporate leaders and investors at the opening of the tenth Arab-China Business Conference on June 11. "Now, we have an opportunity to strengthen the historic Arab-Chine
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