Saudi Arabia hoping 'business as usual' strategy holds
Although some prominent figures stayed away from a major investment conference in Riyadh, the meeting went ahead with many global firms represented
Saudi Arabia is determined that the international outrage over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul shouldn't affect commercial and economic activity. For the time being at least, the Saudi leadership's strategy appears to be working. Some big names from politics and the world's business community were absent, but 'Davos in the desert', as it was dubbed, was by no means a wash-out. For while governments around the world want and are insisting on further details of the killing of Khashoggi and who ordered it, they're also realistic enough to know that they can't simply walk away from such a lucrative source of investment and business. In particular, government
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