French courtship of Gulf monarchies is risky: experts
Hungry for defence deals, France has cosied up to the Gulf monarchies, winning several billion-euro contracts in the process, but its strategy of backing one side in the region's Sunni-Shia power struggle is risky, say experts./ These are boom times for France's defence industry, with the country signing 15 billion euros ($16.7 billion) worth of weapons deals this year -- almost double its 8.1-billion tally for the whole of 2014. Mounting chaos in the Middle East has prompted the oil-rich Gulf monarchies to arm themselves to the teeth, and ...
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