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The طريق الهدا connects Makkah to Taif and is also used to bypass Makkah from the south.

Look it up. I’ve only driven through it a few times.

There is another طريق السيل الكبير which bypasses Makkah from the north it is flatter but still narrow and bendy and packed with trucks.

The road you posted I bet is somewhere in Najd, the topography looks nothing like the mountains of Hijaz.

There’s no rail lines west of Riyadh except a passanger HSR connecting Makkah to Medina. Though gondolas could be an option, maybe…

It is still a long drive, and the narrow twisty mountain roads as well as restrictions to non-Muslims around Makkah limit the capacity.

I am glad I am not in the US and I am glad I bought a Chery.

It never was. Since antiquity it had various Semitic people with Akkadian and Aramaic influences surviving in the spoken dialect of the Shia majority, the Sunni minority speak a different Arabic dialect. Before Islam it was predominately Christian.

That said, the current Sunni monarchy conquered Bahrain in the 18th century. The majority are Shia Arab who are very sympathetic to Iran and don’t like hosting US troops. The last indigenous Shia rulers of Bahrain ruled on behalf of Iran.

Talk is cheap. There has got to be something more substantial China can do.

Thank you China.

Somehow western liberals want us to reject the evidence we see and instead believe them when they claim China would be worse for us than the US.