Saudi Crown Prince's Meeting with President Trump | Karen House

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia - widely known as MBS - came to Washington this week to meet with President Trump and business leaders. It is his first visit to America in eight years and seven years after the murder of Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi.The Crown Prince also attended a White House dinner and, the next day, met with business leaders at the Kennedy Center.This visit is an important moment for both the Crown Prince and President Trump, given their significance in the region.We will talk about many things, including:The murder of Jamal Khashoggi and President Trump’s comments about it at a press conferenceThe Saudi–American relationship on defense and nuclear issuesThe Abraham Accords and the pursuit of a two-state solutionThe role of China as a tech leaderAnd the broader strategic landscape across the Middle EastKaren Elliott House has been reporting on Saudi Arabia for decades - as a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, foreign editor of The Wall Street Journal, and author of the 2012 book On Saudi Arabia and her biography published earlier this year, The Man Who Would Be King. She also wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal this week titled “MBS Returns to Washington.”

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