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发布时间：2025-09-11 23:16:21 来源：都市天下脉观察 作者：综合

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Saudi Crown Prince vows to invest $1 trillion in US

Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy breaks down President Donald Trump's deals and actions in Saudi Arabia on 'Special Report.'

When President Donald Trump chose Saudi Arabia for his first foreign trip of the new term — meeting Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) in Riyadh — it underscored how closely U.S. interests now track Saudi change. In turn, MBS is set to visit the White House in the coming months. The timing is notable: he turns 40 this month and marks 10 years in power, with a domestic record few leaders have matched in a single decade.

The most visible shift has been in women’s rights. In a nation of more than 20 million citizens, women now drive, travel without a male guardian and hold roles in law, aviation, diplomacy and the C-suite — boosting household incomes and widening the country’s talent base. Women now make up about 36% of the workforce. That's a statistic that may seem normal to Americans but marks a profound societal change for Saudi Arabia.

President Donald Trump walks with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during an official state arrival ceremony at the Saudi Royal Court on May 13, 2025, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Regionally, MBS has tied domestic change to strategy abroad. He supports expanding the Abraham Accords but argues that lasting normalization with Israel requires a credible pathway to a Palestinian state — the necessary political price after Gaza to build an alignment that integrates Israel into the region.

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This pace of change has not come without coercion. Dissent is tightly controlled, and political space remains limited. Critics point to arrests of activists, businessmen and even royals. But history shows that in rigid systems, rapid reform often clashes with entrenched interests — and great reformers such as Turkey’s Atatürk, Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew and China’s Deng Xiaoping rarely transformed nations without firm measures to suppress opposition.

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