Li Qiang meets Oman’s Sultan Haitham in Beijing

The energy language here is broader than a routine bilateral courtesy: pairing oil-and-gas supply-chain cooperation with clean energy projects and an early China-GCC trade deal signals Beijing's push to lock in Gulf partners across both fossil and transition value chains. For RWA and tokenization watchers, the mention of satellites, information and communications, and AI hints at digital-infrastructure cooperation that could later touch cross-border data and asset rails, though nothing concrete is on the table yet. Whether the GCC trade track moves from rhetoric to a negotiating timetable is the open question.