The Financial Times in its editorial today strongly criticized the reform process led by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, saying it was superficial and fragile.
The paper stressed that the name of the de facto ruler of the Kingdom, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, should not escape the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which overshadows his reform efforts, in which 11 people are tried in a way that is a model of the methods of ambiguous accountability.
Khashoggi's crime is not the only issue that casts a shadow over Saudi reform efforts; domestic investments have fallen, attempts to free the economy from subordination to the oil sector have failed, and attempts to incite the Saudi elite to invest at home have not worked.
It concluded that Mohammed bin Salman, who implicated the kingdom in the Yemen war, seems to understand little in geopolitics and the sensitivity of the site he inherited, and does not appear to have suffered much from the repercussions of Khashoggi's death, and therefore should not be fooled by one of the slogans of reform claimed by Ma. This situation lasted.