MESOPOTAMIA NEWS “MIDDLE EAST”: CHINA COMING / THE “WEST” GOING !

Greetings from The National‘s newsroom in Abu Dhabi,  13 July 2018

Chinese President Xi Jinping is to visit the UAE next week, it was announced yesterday. During his three-day official state visit from Thursday, Mr Xi will attend a UAE-China Economic Forum to look at investment opportunities in the seven emirates. Details of his visit were released just days after China pledged $20 billion in loans to Arab states at a Beijing summit.

The Iranian operatives in a recently caught UAE-based ring were using a network of front and shell companies to forge documents to send money to proxies backed by Tehran, a senior US official said yesterday. Sigal Mandelker, Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence at the US Treasury, gave a detailed breakdown of a network that had been funnelling millions to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard for payment to proxy force.

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