Thanks to Trump, Saudi Arabia gets a big week in international diplomacy

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Only a few years ago, Washington was calling Saudi Arabia a “pariah” over its headline-making human rights violations. Western business leaders cancelled investments in the kingdom. Celebrities and sports stars took flak for doing events there. With its oil and its regional clout, however, Saudi Arabia proved too useful for the Biden administration to push the kingdom away for too long. And just a few weeks into the second term of Donald Trump, who nurtured a cosy relationship with the kingdom when he was last in office, Saudi Arabia’s stock is once again on the rise – even if Trump’s...