Japan-Saudi Arabia ties: a green-energy gambit or was ‘everything about China’?
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Tokyo has agreed to help give Saudi Arabia’s solar-power capabilities a technological boost as it eyes Beijing’s growing reach in the Middle East warily. But analysts say the Japanese PM wields ‘relatively little influence’ over Riyadh.