Geopolitical Coup: China Plays International Peacemaker With Saudi Arabia and Iran

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : The top envoys for Saudi Arabia and Iran will meet in Beijing on Thursday, an Iranian official and a Saudi-owned newspaper said, as the two regional rivals work to hash out next steps of their diplomatic rapprochement amid a China-brokered deal.
50% :Beijing's secret role in the breakthrough between Tehran and Riyadh shook up dynamics in the Middle East, where the United States was for decades the main mediator, flexing its security and diplomatic muscles.
38% : PJ Media's Lincoln Brown reported last month that China had negotiated a restoration of diplomatic ties between Saudi Arabia and Iran, bitter regional foes and religious opponents (the Kingdom being the de facto capital of Sunni Islam and Iran being Shi'ite).
38% : The flex was also a rhetorical win for Iran, a longtime American foe that is all too happy to see the United States cut out of the equation.

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