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Chequebook diplomacy

The economic crisis having dried up their foreign affairs budgets, Western countries are increasingly turning to Saudi Arabia to finance the pacification of the Taliban in Afghanistan, to equip the Pakistan army and pay for the offensive against jihadist camps [...] (536 words)
Issue dated 11/02/2010 Reading time 3 minutes

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