Saudi Arabia is becoming much more liberal as a result too, right? Yeah. And if you look at the investment, like, you didn't need to go to Dave Swenson and understand portfolio allocation but I think Saudi are smart enough to have probably done it. It's Apple, Facebook, Metah, and Google. You do see liberalism emerge in these countries with better educational standards, more equality, more human rights. We're seeing in Saudi now that women can drive,. There's new industry, that there's education, thatthere's a technology industry booming. Do you not think that we're making an influence on these places locally and that we're seeing that?
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45:41 China, Saudi Arabia, Russia increase relations: should the US be worried?
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https://www.google.com/finance/quote/PLD:NYSE
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-arabia-considers-accepting-yuan-instead-of-dollars-for-chinese-oil-sales-11647351541
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-to-join-russia-military-exercises-as-u-s-rivals-deepen-ties-11660755790
https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/saudi-pif-buys-shares-alphabet-zoom-microsoft-us-shopping-spree-2022-08-16
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/playing-fire-ukraine
https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2022-08/hr5376_IR_Act_8-3-22.pdf
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/02/what-a-carbon-tax-can-do-and-why-it-cannot-do-it-all
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