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Trump arrives in a much-changed Middle East

Donald Trump has arrived in the Middle East and changes in the power and influence of the region’s actors mean that he will find a very different region to the one during his last visit in 2017. Iran and Russia (and, indirectly, China) are nursing blows to their power in the region, which has created space for the US to try to pull the likes of Saudi Arabia back into its orbit.

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