Saudi Arabia’s Alliances Are Being Tested as Never Before

The death of Jamal Khashoggi has done incalculable damage to the kingdom’s reputation

The Economist
4 min readOct 17, 2018

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When America’s secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, met Saudi officials in Riyadh on October 16th, they smiled, posed for photos and talked about jet lag. They did not dwell on the Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, allegedly…

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