US president Barack Obama will travel to Saudi Arabia next month to mend fences with King Abdullah bin Abdel-Aziz. He need not go begging.Obama leads an oil producing nation whose output now rivals Saudi Arabia.The new real-ity of the US shale boom has upended the US-Saudi strate-gic partnership.But if Obama wants to show he means busi-ness,he should end US crude export controls. Former US secretary of state James Baker told the Argus Americas Crude Summit in Houston last month that the US shale boom will inevitably affect US relationships in the Middle East.“It already has—as well as our influence,” Baker says.Obama’s visit is designed to ease tensions sparked by his decision last year not to launch a military strike on Syria and by his re-engagement with Iran.
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机译：美国总统巴拉克奥巴马将于下个月前往沙特阿拉伯，以与Abdullah Bin Abdel-Aziz国王修补围栏。 他不需要去乞讨。奥巴马领导一个石油生产国家，现在的产量竞争对手沙特阿拉伯。美国页岩热潮的新真实概述已掀起美国沙特乐队的合作伙伴关系。但如果奥巴马想要表明他意味着Busi- 尼斯，他应该结束美国原油出口管制。 前美国国务卿詹姆斯·贝克在休斯顿在休斯顿在休斯顿的粗暴峰会上个月告诉美国页岩热潮将不可避免地影响美国在中东的关系。“它已经拥有 - 以及我们的影响力，”贝克说.Obama的访问是 旨在缓解暴徒，去年的决定引发了他的决定，而不是在叙利亚发动军事罢工，并通过与伊朗重新接触。
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