Kristie Neo

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BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English) · Kristie Neo: Middle East & China Partnership Acceleration, Secret Power Corridors Reshaping Global Markets & AI Megaprojects – E646 · 23 Nov 2025 podcast

It's yeah, it's a similar playbook that we've seen.

It's not just Qatar, right?

Like I think you see in Saudi Arabia is still see here the UE.

And um yeah, I think like similar to to what I mentioned, I think like

the Chinese have definitely been pouring a lot of investment into areas like construction.

But I think, you know, a lot of the there's a lot of growth opportunity.

In fact, I think there were some articles just came out the last week on Tai Sin about some of the contracts that are going on between uh the construction giants that these

the Chinese construction giants I've been bidding for in Saudi Arabia have been so competitive because again, there there's a need for them to continue growing.

And everybody now has discovered, oh, Saudi Arabia is like this is this this, you know, again this virgin land that we can come in and, you know, be able to build.

So there's been a lot of competition even among the contractors there.

But even they are also beginning to realize that um being able to operate and deliver, you know, in Saudi Arabia may not necessarily be the same as what they had in their minds in terms of again,

the returns on some of these projects.

Um Saudi Arabia also has their own protectionist laws.

So those will eventually lead to certain levels of restrictions in terms of how they can deliver on some of the t timelines of some of these projects.

And then on top of that, you know, having to to bid

against and win against some of these other Chinese construction companies is going to be a bit more challenging for them to to operate in.

So I mean that was that was an interesting kind of bit more of an investigative piece about it.

But yeah, it's it's it's one of those regions that I mean, forget about China.

Like even Saudi Arabia is a market that a lot of people

don't really understand a lot about.

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