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The president, his business and his family have long cultivated close ties with Saudi Arabia and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

He said Beijing has little desire to control the U.N. system and instead is cultivating committees to gain influence over emerging standards, such as AI governance.

Still, locals have managed to cultivate their kitchen gardens.

Weiss has cultivated a reputation as a reasonable dissident, eliding outright partisanship and granting her the appearance of neutrality while claiming the mantle to question progressive orthodoxy.

Signaling and cultivating wealthy donors by cooperating with lengthy profiles in mainstream media publications like the New York Times.