Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
The disappearance of the prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has focused much attending inward Washington, D.C., where Khashoggi had been living inward self-imposed exile, on the flow of bad word coming out of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia inward recent months. Ever since Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman returned from a month-long trip abroad inward March as well as April, alongside stops inward Egypt, the United Kingdom, the United States, French Republic as well as Spain, a succession of developments convey cast serious dubiety on the credibility of the reform narrative the crown prince as well as his entourage were therefore energetically pushing, to oftentimes eager applause.
Given the opaque nature of decision-making at the pump of the Saudi regal family, concrete information points are difficult to come upwards by. Yet it increasingly seems that Mohammed bin Salman’s U.S. catch represents, inward retrospect, the high-water score of his domestic as well as international influence. That leaves gaping questions virtually the path frontwards every bit Kingdom of Saudi Arabia moves inexorably toward a generational transition of leadership as well as power.
Mohammed bin Salman emerged inward 2013 from relative obscurity every bit a younger boy of the then-Crown Prince Salman. He ascended alongside dizzying speed to original of his father’s courtroom as well as then, i time Salman became king, to government minister of defence as well as deputy crown prince. ...
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