Abu Dhabi, UAE
CNN
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US President Donald Trump just finished a lavish tour of Gulf Arab states, where every one of the three energy-rich nations he visited had a long wish list from the American leader.
While those nations reaped some big rewards from the trip, they fell short of others.
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates all “wanted to showcase they were open for business, which they were able to do, and they wanted to get the US on side,” Dina Esfandiary, Middle East lead for Bloomberg Economics, told CNN. “They wanted to show that they were back in terms of being in America’s graces,” she said, adding that in return, Trump was able to…
