{"id":86092,"date":"2024-05-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2024\/05\/13\/biden-administration-at-crossroads-over-defense-pact-with-saudi\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T00:00:00","slug":"biden-administration-at-crossroads-over-defense-pact-with-saudi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2024\/05\/13\/biden-administration-at-crossroads-over-defense-pact-with-saudi\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden administration at crossroads over defense pact with Saudi"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s no single story dominating coverage of Saudi in the foreign press this morning<\/strong>, but the Voice of America<\/a> is out with a piece on what\u2019s at stake for a defense pact between Saudi and the US. The Biden administration is mulling whether to proceed with an agreement that doesn\u2019t include Saudi normalization with Israel, or hold its ground on the normalization, pundits say. <\/p>\n

Background: <\/strong>Reuters and Bloomberg reported earlier this month<\/a> that an agreement is in the works despite White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan saying that Washington agreeing to the bilateral pact is contingent on normalization.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere: Local professionals aren\u2019t thrilled with foreign consultants \u2014 or their price <\/strong>tags.<\/strong> That\u2019s the takeaway from a piece in the Financial Times<\/a> on the ubiquity of international consultancy firms in the Kingdom, which some have argued has become an unnecessary expense with little return.<\/p>\n

In context:<\/strong> Saudi\u2019s consultancy market grew to a record USD 3 bn in 2023, the salmon-colored paper writes, citing data by Source Global Research. That\u2019s about the same size as the Swiss market for the same services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan set normalization as a condition for Washington to agree on the pact<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2561],"tags":[10,1985,1984,269,229],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-86092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-saudi-in-the-news","tag-enterpriseam-ksa","tag-jake-sullivan","tag-joe-biden","tag-normalization","tag-saudi-in-the-news","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"0242e8ca-cf93-44b6-b34c-637e78c91659","order":"10","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2024\/5\/846.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Biden administration at crossroads over defense pact with Saud","related_issue":[86073],"teaser":"White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan set normalization as a condition for Washington to agree on the pact","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2024\/5\/.28a7035f-d4ba-48bd-bcf3-c78a4e986079.mp3"},"yoast_head":"\nBiden administration at crossroads over defense pact with Saudi - 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