Q&A: What role did China play in brokering Iran-Saudi detente

The detente between Tehran and Riyadh last week was all the more surprising because of the third party serving as mediator: China. China - a long-time partner of Iran that counts Saudi Arabia as its biggest source of foreign oil - played host to a deal to ease years of diplomatic deadlock between the Middle East rivals.

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