{"id":373943,"date":"2025-12-28T11:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T11:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/373943\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T11:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T11:13:10","slug":"why-saudi-arabia-might-not-fulfil-spending-pledge-to-us-amid-china-america-rivalry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/373943\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Saudi Arabia might not fulfil spending pledge to US amid China-America rivalry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/saudi-arabia?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Saudi Arabia<\/a> has pledged to boost investments in America to nearly US$1 trillion, but according to analysts Riyadh could struggle to meet that target.Rather, they said the pledge \u2013 announced when Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3333319\/trump-insists-saudi-crown-prince-knew-nothing-about-khashoggi-killing?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">visited Washington last month<\/a> \u2013 was more about the \u201cpolitical display\u201d than a binding commitment.By comparison, China and Saudi Arabia signed commercial deals worth about US$30 billion when Chinese President <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3202503\/during-xis-visit-middle-east-china-and-saudi-arabia-sign-34-energy-and-investment-deals?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Xi Jinping visited Riyadh<\/a> in 2022.<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"China and Saudi Arabia signed about US$30 billion worth of deals when Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Riyadh in 2022. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/93419adc-8db5-41b5-b31b-d72b2d360074_b16bc56f.jpg\" title=\"China and Saudi Arabia signed about US$30 billion worth of deals when Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Riyadh in 2022. Photo: AFP\"\/>China and Saudi Arabia signed about US$30 billion worth of deals when Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Riyadh in 2022. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">New business deals signed between Riyadh and Washington in November cover US infrastructure, technology and industry and include a civil nuclear cooperation agreement and a memorandum of understanding on artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia has pledged to boost investments in America to nearly US$1 trillion, but according to analysts Riyadh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[182,23,182993,144,182992,71802,12,44452,182995,71801,3,182994,4011,111241,54181,131,21,19,22,20,25,24,24127],"class_list":["post-373943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-ai","tag-america","tag-american-university","tag-china","tag-china-institutes-of-contemporary-international-relations","tag-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman","tag-donald-trump","tag-international-monetary-fund","tag-middle-east-council-on-global-affairs","tag-neom","tag-news","tag-niu-xinchun","tag-oil-prices","tag-public-investment-fund","tag-riyadh","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-vision-2030"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}