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When Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman buckled himself into a Bentley SUV with Qatar’s emir at the wheel, it was a moment of camaraderie that would soon come to define ties between the two countries.
Prince Mohammed’s visit to the neighbouring Gulf state in 2021 not only helped bury a political grudge that had rumbled on for three years, it also ignited a rise in Qatar-Saudi business ties that has gathered pace ever since.
His SUV tour of the Qatari capital took in a new 10-lane expressway, a…