Saudi-China trade deals exceeded sixty-three billion dollars since 2018

Evidence

In February 2019, the controversial crown prince of Saudi Arabia-Muhammad bin Salman (often known as MBS)-traveled to China to meet with Chinese president Xi Jinping. The meeting took place during the height of increasing media attention on Beijing’s persecution of Uighur Muslims. According to Newsweek magazine, Saudi Arabia and China have engaged in over sixty-three billion dollars’ worth of trade deals just since 2018. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 171

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete figure supporting the reader’s global-synthesis point that economic interdependency drives Muslim-state complicity.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 171