Our elites have signaled since the Obama era, that they have wanted to get rid of the petrodollar that was the backbone of saving the USA during the cold war. They believe the linking of the dollar to oil weakens the USA in the long term. It also places major limits on the economically creative things that Wall Street, and thus our leaders, has planned for the future.
America's and Europe's "intellectuals" are firmly in the camp of the Muslim Brotherhood. MB has lots of operatives in the kingdom fomenting unrest. There were several weapons systems that the USA refused to sell to Saudi and the GCC. China had no such qualms. These include ballistic weapons, cruise missiles and stealthy attack drones. Not to mention China is freely willing to offer intelligence products for $ that don't come with the strings that western products do.
