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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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Tourism
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "So I've always argued that both Saudi Arabia and Israel are heavily invested in regime change in Iran. In fact, Saudi Arabia sees Iran..."
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"So I've always argued that both Saudi Arabia and Israel are heavily invested in regime change in Iran. In fact, Saudi Arabia sees Iran..."
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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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"...their business model to replace oil, which was going to be tourism and come here, it's safe, it's sunny."
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"to end are international tourism and the fact that we've got to cut back Stephen, oddly, I found, I saw you nodding pretty much..."
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"...running out to an economy through the gulf states based on tourism sport uh entertainment and so on it becomes very difficult to sustain..."
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"...it's safe it's sunny it's going to be entertainment great for tourism great for sport and so on and that right now that's all..."
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"...and so Chinese don't actually like to go to Canada for tourism. And someone asked, why doesn't anyone recommend Chinese going to Canada? And..."
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"...like to see as the future of their economy which is tourism sport entertainment clearly designed to scare people away from that is this..."
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"...trying to build a knowledge economy, it was trying to build tourism, it was trying to promote games."
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"...they need a knowledge economy. They recognize that they need more tourism. That's why they spent those those dollars to bring in e -gaming,..."
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"...on aviation. They focused on logistics. They focused on finance, on tourism. They were extremely wealthy, right? I'm not sure if you've taken Emirates,..."
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