The teachable moment of Saudi Arabia’s economic threat against the United States
Posted on AllSides April 21st, 2016
From The Left
OPINION
Back in the early days of the Great Recession, there was a lot of foreign policy pundit panic that China would somehow use its holdings of American debt as an economic lever to force Washington to kowtow to Beijing. Also back in those early days, I argued that this was nonsense. Seven years later, I like to occasionally bring up this fact, mostly because it’s one of the rare times I think I was unequivocally right.
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