Saudi Arabia Starts to Weaponize Its Wealth – BloombergQuint

Resource-rich Saudi Arabia, which in recent months amassed a $2 billion stake in the Twitter-mad billionaire’s electric-car company Tesla Inc., has declared economic war on Canada. The cause was a tweet by Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, whose call for the release of social activists arrested by the Gulf monarchy earned a stunningly disproportionate response this week.
— Read on www.bloombergquint.com/opinion/2018/08/09/saudi-arabia-starts-to-weaponize-its-wealth