Saudi Arabia has sought Chinese defense cooperation for the past half-decade, beginning during the second Libyan civil war by purchasing Chinese drones, the Saudis and the United Arab Emirates ( UAE) to counter Turkish UCAVs, which demonstrated their lethality in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh. Details are limited, but the deal likely includes helicopters and unmanned combat aerial vehicles ( UCAVs). First, in late August, Russia and Saudi Arabia signed a defense technology agreement. Sino-Saudi cooperation at COP-26 follows on the heels of two previous events. Much like legitimate COVID-19 data would demonstrate the CCP’s institutional incompetence and callous brutality, legitimate economic data would contradict the CCP’s insistence that it has guided, and will continue to guide, China to a prosperous future without the uncertainty and instability of market capitalism. Two-working-adult no-child relationships are rising, as is the practice of “lying flat” to escape the CCP’s state-capitalist rat-race. China’s young urban professionals already are overwhelmingly bourgeois, forced into a brutal “996” work culture entailing 72-hour work weeks. Indeed, economic malaise is the CCP’s greatest fear. The Evergrande default crisis, the CCP’s attacks on high-technology executives and other wealthy individuals, and Premier Li Keqiang’s recent comments that China’s economy faces “downward pressures” - a euphemism in Party-speak for slowing growth - show that the CCP has no interest in revealing macroeconomic data. China’s objection is broader: Emissions data would offer a concrete indication of Chinese economic performance, one of the Chinese Communist Party’s ( CCP) most closely guarded state secrets. In the former’s case, emissions statistics would provide insight into Saudi Aramco’s opaque operations, thereby reducing the House of Saud’s control on oil production and pricing. Saudi Arabia and China both refuse to reveal this data. Naturally, without this transparency, global regulatory frameworks are irrelevant. The most notable development from the climate summit was China’s cooperation with Saudi Arabia.ĬOP26’s central policy proposals necessitate transparent emissions reporting. The Biden administration seems fully committed to reorienting America’s Middle East policy along bizarre lines, gifting erstwhile American allies to a bellicose and ambitious China. COP26’s Unintended Consequences: Pushing Our Allies Into China’s HandsĬareful observers of international affairs must remain attentive to the COP26 spectacle in Glasgow.
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