US President Donald Trump (L) shakes hands with Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (C) prior to the G20 summit meeting in Osaka on June 28, 2019 during the US leader’s first term. Photo: Asia Times Files / AFP via The Yomiuri Shimbun

Saudi Minister of Economy and Planning Faisal Al-Ibrahim told the World Economic Forum during last month’s Davos Summit, “We’ve been invited to the BRICS, similar to how we’ve been invited to many other multilateral platforms in the past historically. We assess many different aspects of it before a decision is made and right now, we are in the middle