Recently, the mainstream media in the United States has begun to rehash an old score, that is, the "eternal pain" of the United States, that is, the "911 incident". CBS also aired a declassified video of a federal court, filmed in 1999 by Omar. Bayumi, the filming location is in many sensitive locations, so the FBI believes that these videos are all preparations for the "911 incident", and this filmer has close contacts with two Saudi officials in the United States, so the FBI believes that the Saudi government was involved in the "911 incident". The involvement of Saudi citizens in the 911 attacks was confirmed at the time, but this does not mean that the Saudi government instructed it, and the successive US administrations have never said that the Saudi government had anything to do with it. However, the US government has also threatened the Saudi government with the so-called "top-secret files" several times, and Saudi Arabia has long called on the United States to release it as soon as possible. Regardless of whether the Saudi government has anything to do with this matter, it is clear that the United States and Saudi Arabia have completely torn their faces.
Since the Biden administration came to power, the relationship between the United States and the Saudi crown prince has been poor, Biden once said that Saudi Arabia was called a "pariah state", and promised to make the Saudi royal family a "social outcast" during the campaign. However, after the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the United States had to turn to Saudi Arabia to increase oil production, reduce oil prices, and alleviate domestic inflation in the United States. However, Saudi Arabia has done the opposite, not only not increasing production, but reducing production several times. However, these are not enough to completely shake the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia, and the most important thing is that Saudi Arabia will not renew the "oil-dollar agreement" recently. It is said that this is actually part of the military agreement between Saudi Arabia and the United States, that is, the United States provides security protection for Saudi Arabia, and Saudi oil is tied to the dollar. So the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States has been stable for so many years, but the situation has changed in recent years.
Especially since the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, US influence in the Middle East has shrunk, allowing allies to see the decline of US hegemony in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia has begun to actively improve relations with neighboring countries, the most typical of which is to reconcile with Iran, an old enemy, under the mediation of China. Since then, it has been reconciling with Shiite countries and reaching a ceasefire agreement with Yemen. Saudi Arabia suddenly found that it did not need the protection of the United States, and the United States did not have the ability to do so, and the fleet was attacked by the Houthis in Yemen twice in three days. So there is no reason for Saudi Arabia to continue to be tied to the dollar, not to mention that the dollar has become a "time bomb". Whether this news is true or not, Saudi Arabia is indeed accelerating its decoupling from the dollar. For example, the central bank of China and Saudi Arabia signed a bilateral currency swap agreement, quickly joined the BRICS, and recently joined the China-led multilateral central bank to familiarize itself with the currency bridge. From the fact that the United States used "911" to intimidate Saudi Arabia, it seems to prove the authenticity of this matter. The logic of the United States is that you are either our friend or my enemy. "Petro-dollar" is the lifeblood of dollar hegemony, and it is indeed dangerous for Saudi Arabia to do so, but Saudi Arabia has also found a way back for itself in advance.
Just after the United States began to hype up this matter, the Saudi defense minister immediately visited China and emphasized the discussion of cooperation between the two countries in the military field, and it is estimated that a lot of defense equipment will be purchased this time. Prior to this, China's Ministry of National Defense also announced that it would hold a seminar for senior military officers from China and Arab countries. Since the United States has contracted its strategy in the Middle East, China and Russia have begun to strengthen their influence in the Middle East, and if China wants to launch projects in the Middle East, it must be matched with military cooperation, and international strategies are interlocking, which also shows that China has begun to officially enter the Middle East. And the United States and Saudi Arabia, the two once close allies, have torn their faces, and it can only be said that the United States has been kicked out of the Middle East, and its military hegemony, dollar hegemony, and cultural hegemony in the Middle East have all gone bankrupt.