. the world's largest oil conglomerate saudi aramco has raised twelve billion dollars with its first international bond issue the high demand is seen as a good sign for a planned a but much delayed initial public offering it's now set for next year according to the saudi government the country has come under international pressure following the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi in october but the bond sale shows western investors have shown continued interest in doing business with the kingdom . china's leaders dying is in croatia ahead of friday's joint economic summit with sixteen european nations it's the first visit by a chinese premier to the country and he's brought offers of cheap loans and infrastructure projects but some in the e.u. fear china's strategy is to divide and conquer using economic incentives for individual countries to create divisions within the continent. military honors