You might say it is a match made in heaven. With their taste in gold elevators, the Trump family and the House of Saud were destined to alight at the same penthouse. But the affinity between Donald Trump, US president, and Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s de facto monarch, goes beyond a shared aesthetic for “dictator chic”. It is chiefly transactional. The US-Saudi relationship is the quintessence of Trumpian diplomacy. Its flowering symbolises the decay in the US-led global order.
你或許會說他們是天造地設的一對。對黃金電梯的相同品味意味著，特朗普家族與沙特王室(House of Saud)注定會在同一座頂層豪華公寓邂逅。但美國總統唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)與沙特阿拉伯事實上的最高統治者穆罕默德?本?薩勒曼(Mohammed bin Salman)之間的親近關系，超越了“獨裁者雅致”的共同審美觀。這種親近關系主要是交易型的。美沙關系是特朗普式外交的范例。這類外交活動盛行一時，象征著美國主導的全球秩序走下坡路。
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