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Saudi Arabia and China agrees to avoid internal interference
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- The accord comes while Chinese President Xi Jinping is in the kingdom.
- Human rights, oil, and other concerns affect U.S.-Mexico-Chile ties.
- Saudi Press Agency released the 4,000-word statement.
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Saudi Arabia and China said their policies were in line in a number of sectors, including security and energy, and that they would support one another without meddling in one another’s internal affairs, in a joint statement released on Friday.
The accord comes while Chinese President Xi Jinping is in the kingdom and as relations between the United States and both nations are already strained due to disagreements over human rights violations, oil production, and other matters.
The roughly 4,000-word joint statement, which was released by the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA), declared agreement on a number of complex international issues, such as energy, security, Iran’s nuclear program, the crisis in Yemen, and Russia’s conflict with Ukraine.
Riyadh and Beijing were keen to stress “the importance of stability in the world oil markets,” noting that Saudi Arabia is a reliable exporter of crude oil to its Chinese partner.
They also expressed determination to “develop cooperation and coordination in defense fields,” as well as continue cooperating on “combating terrorism and its financing.”
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The statement affirmed that the countries will “continue to firmly support each other’s core interests, support each other in maintaining their sovereignty and territorial integrity, and exert joint efforts to defend the principle of non- interference in the internal affairs of states, rules of international law and basic principles of international relations.”
This would entail refraining from disparaging one another’s internal policies, most likely including those pertaining to domestic law and human rights.
Without providing any additional information, China also reaffirmed its “resistance to any activities that would intervene in the internal affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.”
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Both nations have received harsh criticism for their treatment of human rights, and Washington has previously taken action against what it saw to be numerous abuses and violations of human rights committed by both China and Saudi Arabia.
The State Department estimates that since 2017, up to two million Uyghurs and members of other ethnic groups have been detained in a shadowy network of internment camps where they are reportedly “subjected to torture, cruel and inhumane treatment such as physical and sexual abuse, forced labor, and death.”
Chinese officials have consistently denied all claims of human rights abuses. In June, the US banned all goods produced in China’s western Xinjiang region.
And in 2021, a US intelligence report said that Mohammed bin Salman (also known as MBS), the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, had a direct hand in the operation that resulted in the killing and dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist for the Washington Post. MBS refuted the charges.
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