American and other Western business and financial magnates returned to Riyadh last week for a public display of willingness to continue to invest and trade with Saudi Arabia. This followed six months of disruption of commerce following the gruesome assassination of prominent Saudi citizen Jamal Khashoggi in his country's consulate in Istanbul last October.
U.S.-Saudi political relations remain unsettled, as the Khashoggi affair has driven a wedge between the Trump administration and a bipartisan majority of the U.S. Senate, including Republicans who practice a strident form of virtue-signaling employing threats of sanctions and regime change.
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