Pakistani poker: Playing Saudi Arabia against China
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By James M. Dorsey
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Desperate for funding to fend off a financial crisis fuelled in part by mounting debt to China, Pakistan is playing a complicated game of poker that could hand Saudi Arabia a strategic victory in its bitter feud with Iran at…