IntelliBRICS

In international diplomacy, political theatre sometimes disguises a lack of tangible outcomes. This may be the case with President Donald Trump's recent visit to Saudi Arabia, where staggering promises of a trillion dollars’ worth of Saudi investments into the United States were made, a figure mirroring the entirety of the kingdom's gross domestic product and sovereign wealth fund. During the visit Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) ‘committed’ $600 billion to the US with