Page 9 - 87 Billion News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Matured, mending ties with qatar and jordan and re-establishing diplomatic relations with iran and actively seeking a peace deal in yemen. the gulf states are all deepening their relations with china which is now the region's largest customer. in 2001 saudi arabia's trade was one-tenth of its trade with the west. in 2021 it was about $87 billion, more than the u.s. and the eu combined. economic ties are growing rapidly and "the washington post" even reports that china has continued construction on the suspected military facility in the uae. saudi arabia and the gulf are not seeking a divorce w...

Trip to israel this week. >> the idea that somehow being probusiness means giving companies their own governments, that is not what a-free market is all about. last i checked their upset because they're having to live by the same rules as everybody else. they don't want to have to pay the same taxes as everybody else. i don't think the suit has merit. i think it is political. >> this is not going to be an easy fight for disney. first of all, they have significant rear sources. their market value is $187 billion. their a company that is of course known to so many americans as the soft spot when...

Of all possible worlds. they didn't reduce the spending and they got the blame for bringing the government to the precipice of a default. so maybe they have better tactics this time. maybe the circumstances will be different. we're some ways away from the debt limit raise. it's several months away. maybe things will change. the politics of this is not worked out well for republicans in the past. here's the larger point, neil. aishah talking about this vote to defund the $87 billion that congress passed to increase tax audits. there's lots of people that will support that and many people will t...

China's leader is in saudi arabia, the two countries are discussing trade ties and security. beijing and riyadh already have a strong trading relationship, not least because china is the world's biggest importer of oil and saudi arabia is its biggest exporter. china is saudi arabia's biggest trading partner, with trade last year between the two totalling more than $87 billion. that's as china bought almost $41; billion worth of oil from saudi arabia. ayham kamel is head of middle east and north africa, eurasia group. beijing is pursuing a pretty sophisticated strategy here with riyadh and quit...

Why? >> hallie, i have been voting against the ndaa since i came into congress, because i simply don't believe that we need such an increase in defense spending every year, without accountability for that spending. the pentagon is the only agency in the federal government that has not been able to even go through a clean audit. so i don't understand why we keep appropriating more and more money when we know that there is money that's there that's being misused. look at a clean audit and then i would be happy to look at increases but let's look at what we did today, and i did not vote for this ...