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Mark Godfrey

China President Xi Jinping and Saudi Arabia King Salman bin Abdulaziz meet in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
China President Xi Jinping and Saudi Arabia King Salman bin Abdulaziz meet in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | Photo courtesy of Saudi Press Agency
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China is prioritizing a free trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council in 2024, which would give Saudi Arabia low-duty access to the Chinese market for its exports of shrimp. The Gulf Cooperation Council is a trade bloc consisting of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. China has been negotiating a free trade deal with the GCC since 2005, but  China has tightened its political bonds with the block, and specifically Saudi Arabia, in response to…

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Mark Godfrey

Contributing Editor

Mark Godfrey is an Irish journalist covering the agriculture and fisheries sectors in Asia, with a focus on China. Proficient in Mandarin, he has frequently traveled across China's fisheries and aquaculture regions and learned the inner workings of China's corporate world during a nearly three-year stint at the Financial Times' “China Confidential” publication. He has also reported widely across Southeast Asia and the former Soviet Union. He has educational certificates in agriculture and food science, as well as Mandarin.

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