World View: Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, China Sign Economic and Military Agreements

[somebozo]

CPEC is also the one which will effect relations. oil imports from KSA to china may increase resulting in iran's anger. thats why iran want to connect to CPEC to counter saudi business.

Money runs politics..Saudi paid a high profile visit earlier and recognized the benefit of CPEC for their oil exports to China and formed a committee to explore economic opportunities of CPEC.

 

[Talwar e Pakistan]

Does Saudi have a strong military? They spend 80 billion dollars.

Yes, it is very strong - but only recently has the build-up begun. It'll take several years before we see larger changes. By then, Saudi Arabia should be the strongest nation in the Middle East.

 

[Hassan Guy]

Yes, it is very strong - but only recently has the build-up begun. It'll take several years before we see larger changes. By then, Saudi Arabia should be the strongest nation in the Middle East.

More then Israel?

 

[somebozo]

This is a good move.

The personal freedom one enjoys in India is one of the best in the world. Especially so if you are Rich.

In the US 1 in 3 Americans gets arrested by the time he is 23.

I suspect a lot of people seeking citizenship will be from Africa. That is much better than the current bunch of illegal emigrants we have in India.

India needs to provide BD with visa on arrival too. That way at least we can keep track of the emigrants.

IMRAN BHAI .. investing in india will give u more returns than buying a farm in Canada !

Yes, it is very strong - but only recently has the build-up begun. It'll take several years before we see larger changes. By then, Saudi Arabia should be the strongest nation in the Middle East.

More then Israel?

Saudi lost bid to purchase F15-SA due to Israeli objections...nothing should be sold to Arabs which can counter Israel is the global defense policy wether the arms are procured from Russia, Europe or USA..only China is some what independent as it sold CSS3 ballistic missiles to KSA.

 

[Rukarl]

Yes, it is very strong - but only recently has the build-up begun. It'll take several years before we see larger changes. By then, Saudi Arabia should be the strongest nation in the Middle East.

We can see how their "strong" military is doing against the bare foot Houthis, can't we?

Runing away from Houthis in their own, saudi territory.


Even if they spent 1 trillion dollars, they never be the strongest nation in the region. Reason is because they simply lack the competency. And competency is not something you can just buy from the US.

 

[Pandora]

The Abdullah government for sure has been...they pulled off investments from Pakistan to please India..they shut down Pakistani work visas and flooded the market with Indians visas...now the trend is reversed...by observing the ratio of work visas for different nationalities one can easily guesstimate where Saudi FP is headed to. And the government of Salman has no excessive love for India..

I dont know why my fellow pakistanis are so dillusional to think that a change of face will change billions of dollars worth investments they made in india. The reality of the matter is that GCC nations prefer a dirt poor pakistan which can serve their slave labour force and be canon fodders in their religious war.

 

[Talwar e Pakistan]

More then Israel?

Yes... but like I said; it'll take time.

 

[wiseone2]

Its geopolitics, once you decided to hop on American/Iranian bandwagon, dont expect the others to see you as neutral party.

Even with the nuclear deal Iran and USA are not friends

I dont know why my fellow pakistanis are so dillusional to think that a change of face will change billions of dollars worth investments they made in india. The reality of the matter is that GCC nations prefer a dirt poor pakistan which can serve their slave labour force and be canon fodders in their religious war.

Unless something changed recently Saudi Arabia is not a big investor in India

 

[Pandora]

Even with the nuclear deal Iran and USA are not friends



Unless something changed recently Saudi Arabia is not a big investor in India

Well they are not top investors but still their investment in India pales in comparison to Pakistan. You will not find any major saudi company which has its operations in Pakistan. They haven't even made a shred of investment in Oil and gas sector of Pakistan. Their only investment in pakistan is breeding molvies and nawaz shrief.

 

[Qutb-ud-din Aybak]

We can see how their "strong" military is doing against the bare foot Houthis, can't we?

Runing away from Houthis in their own, saudi territory.


Even if they spent 1 trillion dollars, they never be the strongest nation in the region. Reason is because they simply lack the competency. And competency is not something you can just buy from the US.

war isn't about economy and weapons only. its more about getting used to it. saudis have always hired you people to die for them.
now when ever a country starts to fight a war against gorillas they faced same problems like saudis are. US in vietnam was a disaster just because US soldiers were not used to jungle war plus the soviet proxies. the soviets too were unable to win against afghan gorillas with US help. now if you look at the modern conflicts the earlier losses for the countries have always been too high but they recovered after their forces got used to it. look at the example of pakistan. taliban were controlling all of our tribal regions and were making inroads into provinces. the pakistani people even lost the hope to defeat them but now there is not a single village with taliban control in pakistan. its the process of learning from your experience which makes you stronger not weapons or economy.
iraq example is similar. iraqi foces will soon capture mosul too after being humiliated by just 800 daesh members.
so give saudis some time to learn. maybe they win their wars unlike americans who are good at leaving the war without defeating their enemies like iraq,afghanistan,libya.

 

[wiseone2]

Well they are not top investors but still their investment in India pales in comparison to Pakistan. You will not find any major saudi company which has its operations in Pakistan. They haven't even made a shred of investment in Oil and gas sector of Pakistan. Their only investment in pakistan is breeding molvies and nawaz shrief.

The information is not upto date
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India–Saudi_Arabia_relations#Bilateral_investment

The amounts listed are very small

Saudi Arabia is not a big investor in India's energy sector. I do not know if the Indian government wants Saudi investment. USA prevents Saudi investments in some parts of their energy sector.

 

[Pandora]

The information is not upto date
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India–Saudi_Arabia_relations#Bilateral_investment

The amounts listed are very small

Saudi Arabia is not a big investor in India's energy sector. I do not know if the Indian government wants Saudi investment. USA prevents Saudi investments in some parts of their energy sector.

Saudi Arabia has got US by balls in terms of foreign investment. Their US debt holdings alone are enough to cause a chaos in US which is precisely the reason you will never hear them bitching about Saudis.

 

[wiseone2]

Saudi Arabia has got US by balls in terms of foreign investment. Their US debt holdings alone are enough to cause a chaos in US which is precisely the reason you will never hear them bitching about Saudis.

Saudi holding of Treasury bonds is not high. they have investments in equities and real estate by billions. Saudis could sell them. But they are tons of buyers.

 

[Azadkashmir]

what bout the saudi money in USA banks i think its time to say goodbye to money.

 

[wiseone2]

what bout the saudi money in USA banks i think its time to say goodbye to money.

Uncle Sam has been on a printing spree. It dwarfs any Saudi cash holdings.

Saudi trump card versus America is in pricing of crude in US dollars. America's shale production has blunted the Saudi advantage.