Saudi Arabia Starts to Weaponize Its Wealth - Bloomberg

Saudi Arabia Starts to Weaponize Its Wealth - Bloomberg:

Here’s a subject that Elon Musk might think twice before tweeting about. 


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.