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Saudi Arabia's long-term modernization projects are portrayed as hubristic fantasies made possible only by peace, oil wealth, and denial of underlying fragility.
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NEOM
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "and before, like like 30 years ago, it was the city of like a few hundred thousand. Why was it a few hundred thousand?..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "and before, like like 30 years ago, it was the city of like a few hundred thousand. Why was it a few hundred thousand?..."
Key Notes
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Jiang says Saudi attempts to diversify into tourism, e-gaming, and projects like NEOM are not working, which raises the stakes of controlling wider Middle Eastern oil resources.
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"and before, like like 30 years ago, it was the city of like a few hundred thousand. Why was it a few hundred thousand?..."
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"You know, they wanted to build like an indoor ski slope in Saudi Arabia, in a desert. They had something called the Nome, the..."
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"...to e -gaming. That's why they're building something called a line, NEOM. And all these things are not working out. So they need to..."
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"control the oil resources of the entire Middle East if they are to survive and thrive as a nation. So I do believe that..."
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