Saudi Arabia Launches Domestic Missile Production With Chinese Assistance

🚀 RIYADH — Riyadh is building missiles it won't need to ask Washington for. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Chinese-assisted production ends Saudi dependence on US resupply — the lever Washington used to constrain Riyadh's choices. Houthi barrages exposed stockpile vulnerability fast. This deepens Beijing's Gulf footprint while giving Riyadh options Washington can no longer veto. The US-Saudi arms relationship just got a structural competitor.