The security and economic agreement between the U.S. and Bahrain comes as China and Russia seek to expand influence in the region, and Iran remains a threat.
The United States and Bahrain signed a strategic security and economic pact Wednesday that the Biden administration hopes will be a template for strengthening ties with other Persian Gulf countries.
“It also does not entail any specific weapons sales,” the official said, although Bahrain, for its size, is already a major purchaser of U.S. defense equipment and hosts the Navy’s 5th Fleet. “We have a very close military relationship with Bahrain … And I think this agreement kind of formalizes that.
Those long-standing goals largely eluded Biden’s predecessors, as relations with the region’s largest and most dominant country, Saudi Arabia, have. For the past year, through high level visits to Riyadh, the administration has worked to persuade the Saudis to join the Abraham Accords, the Arab-Israeli peace deals achieved by the Trump administration.
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