China, Arab Nations to Hold Summit in Saudi Arabia Next Month

  • Visit to the key energy partner would be Xi’s first since 2016
  • Saudi Arabia is major oil supplier to world’s No. 2 economy

Xi Jinping 

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China and Arab nations will hold a summit in Saudi Arabia early next month, setting up the possibility that Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit the key energy partner for the first time in nearly seven years.