Analyst: US-Saudi dealings work well

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00:00Yeah, and that's perhaps why the word reciprocity was the word that stood out for me in a piece

00:05that was written in the New York Times, an interview, I should say, with Saudi Arabia's

00:11ambassador to the United States, Princess Sreema Bandar. I mean, this theme of a two-way

00:17exchange, mutually beneficial agreements, seems to be quite a recurrent theme, doesn't

00:22it, surrounding this trip?

00:23Oh, indeed. And I think maybe in another term that usually that's thrown around a lot is

00:37transactionality. And I think a lot of the times that when we treat transactionality in a negative

00:43sense, it obviously has a damper on the relationship. But I think what the princess has been trying to

00:50say, or what I get that she was saying, was that there is a positive transactionality. And then

00:56when there is a transactionality that makes sense for both countries, then it has to be a win-win.

01:04And it's very interesting to see that an American-first approach is actually converging

01:11with a Saudi-first approach. And then when you have this kind of two-nation-first approaches

01:16meet, this is the kind of result that it will produce. And of course, it's also the beginning

01:26of many things. I think this is really the beginning of a great deal of development and developing

01:34and into each other's economies.