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Our enemy Iran and our enemy the Arabs strengthening relationships is not uplifting news..

Our* lol

I'm not sure how I feel about this

It's all part of the new world order. this line from the press release tells you what's up:

"...The deal, struck in Beijing this week amid its ceremonial National People's Congress, represents a major diplomatic victory for the Chinese as Gulf states perceive the United States slowly withdrawing from the wider Middle East. ....

Iran is OPEC's 3rd largest producer of crude oil and 5th largest producer of natural gas.

SA has 2nd largest oil reserves in the world. Between the two they have enough oil to last 200 + years each. Collectively a bit more.

tl;dr China is thirsty. Playing matchmaker/dealmaker ensures the taps stay open with multiple redundancies.

Careful, this is a potentially negative opinion lol

I'm leaving it at this. Lol

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It was going to happen eventually. Both horrible countries. Although hopefully Iran's revolution is successful

Nothing about this is uplifting. Why would we want two tyrannical regimes to be friends?

It could be good for Yemen. The two have been fighting a proxy war there, causing so much death and suffering for the Yemeni people.

Just a possibility though.

I'm told a ribbon cutting ceremony will be held next week, where the two representatives from each peace loving nation will hold hands on a sword together and behead a dissident to cement the newly established relations.

Brokered by China. Maybe this sub should be called News for the Naive.

Tbh though, it’s good for all countries to not have a massive war in the Middle East that would likely be sponsored by opposing sides like the US and Russia, could drag on for a decade, and would cause gas and energy prices to double

The alternative is the working people of Iran and Saudi Arabia continue killing eachother. Why should they, or anyone for that matter, want that?

The White House said the Saudis kept the U.S. informed of the talks and that it welcomes any moves that de-escalate tensions in the region. Countries around the Middle East and the United Nations' secretary-general also responded positively to the news.

In other words, everyone who matters is welcoming the news.

That's just normal public relations. It wouldn't serve US interests for the US government to openly say to the world, "Oh man, that sucks. Dislike." The truth is that while de-escalating tensions is a good thing, we are also interested in other things like human rights. China brokered this deal by not bringing up human rights violations... because they are human rights violators themselves. If the cost of peace is oppression, then I personally wouldn't consider that uplifting news. I'd like to think others would agree.

Beneficial for the U.S.

> we are also interested in other things like human rights.

The country allied with Saudi Arabia? Virtually nothing happened when MBS had a journalist hacked up, and nothing happened while Saudis were causing famine in Yemen. I think how selective the US is with "Human Rights" is rather curious.

That is fair. Let me rephrase: we SHOULD also be interested in other things like human rights. It is bad when we fall short in this regard. Both examples you mentioned are good examples.

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Sorry to burst your bubble, but the USA's own record in human rights is pretty bad. It would be nice of things can start getting better from within the house.

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By comparison to? The USA at least tries and often fails versus just not trying at all. Also, the USA's record on a lot of stuff is really crappy. Why would I want the USA to do more crappy things like support a China brokered deal that ignores human rights?

Again, usa is as bad as China, SA and Iran when it come to HR violations. That is why no one gives a damn when US pretends to be the moral police.

Not everyone is American, more peace in the Middle East is a good thing

Not everyone is evil. Not really peace when you have messed up country's alliance