UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s trip to Bahrain is an attempt to find more customers for British-made weapons in the wake of the referendum to withdraw from the European Union (EU), says an analyst in New York.
Ian Williams, a senior analyst at Foreign Policy in Focus, said May’s visit to the tiny Persian Gulf state was intended to save the country’s economy from the possible consequences of Brexit.
Addressing the the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council’s annual summit in Manama on Wednesday, May said Britain planned to invest more than $3.7 billion in the region over the next decade.
“Well, it seems a bit superfluous, taking dollars to the (Persian) Gulf is – in the old British saying – taking coals to Newcastle,” Williams told Press TV on Wednesday. “They no more need dollar investments than they need oil.”
“The real point of this is the security cooperation,” he said, noting that as the UK is leaving the EU, it is looking to find…