Cut The Clutter: World's richest nation, about 4% of Israel’s population & fulcrum of Middle-East power opens up

In episode 654 of Cut The Clutter, Shekhar Gupta begins with a riddle, about a country whose native population is just over 3 lakhs but whose GDP is $360 billion. The United States' largest air force base in Middle-East is based in this country, which also shares ownership of the world’s largest gas field with Iran. Its neighbours lift a three-year blockade on it. Why have they done so now, and what does it mean for the world?

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