Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman gestures during a military parade. (photo credit:SAUDI PRESS AGENCY/REUTERS)
Bloomberg: Saudi Arabia Starts to Weaponize Its Wealth
Here’s a subject that Elon Musk might think twice before tweeting about.
Resource-rich Saudi Arabia, which in recent months amassed a $2 billion stake in the Twitter-mad billionaire’s electric-car company Tesla Inc., has declared economic war on Canada. The cause was a tweet by Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, whose call for the release of social activists arrested by the Gulf monarchy earned a stunningly disproportionate response this week.
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Update: Combative Saudi foreign policy stirs international ire (France 24)
WNU Editor: Canada is having problems finding allies in its dispute with Saudi Arabia .... Canada asks for help in Saudi dispute (AFP).
