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After a face-to-face meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman failed to sway the influential Kingdom's calculus on oil geopolitics over the summer, President Joe Biden's next trip to the Arab world appeared to go far more smoothly, as the United States sought to reassert its influence in the region amid great power competition with China and Russia. The U.S. leader's interactions on the sidelines of the G20 gathering in Indonesia may have dominated headlines this week, but his earlier sit-down with Egyptian counterpart Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, conducted against the backdrop of the U.N. COP27 climate summit, marked a potentially...
