With two high-level visits in less than a month, the United States is hoping to steady ties with Saudi Arabia after several years of disagreement and deepening mistrust.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will arrive for meetings with officials of the world's largest oil exporter, following a May 7 visit by White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
He will contend with a U.S.-Saudi relationship battered by disputes over Iran and journalist Jamal Khashoggi's 2018 murder and weakened by the fading of an oil-for-security bargain that has united the countries for decades. First, the long-standing pillar of U.S.-Saudi relations, the U.S. provision of security in return for steady supplies of Saudi oil, has withered.
Second, the rise of China, now the biggest buyer of Saudi oil and largest source of Saudi imports, as well as the so-called U.S. "pivot" to Asia, have led Riyadh to hedge its geopolitical bets. However strained, a true rupture in ties is unlikely because Riyadh needs the U.S. military to ensure the flow of oil from the Gulf - a role neither China nor Russia, which has expanded its influence in the region, seem prepared to play - and Washington wants Riyadh to moderate world oil prices.
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