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Saudi boycott? What Saudi boycott?

Six months ago, the murder and dismemberment of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi by agents of Saudi Arabia cast a heavy cloud over the kingdom. But now the international business community is revving up its work with the Saudis again, Michael de la Merced, Stanley Reed and Dai Wakabayashi of the NYT report.

Business leaders had withdrawn from a government-led conference in Riyadh last fall, but that didn’t mean that their Saudi projects stopped:

• Google continued to work on a data center there, meant to support cloud-computing services in the Middle East.

• Blackstone still plans to invest from a $40 billion infrastructure fund that is counting on $20 billion in capital from the Saudis.

• Saudi Aramco, the state-owned oil giant, sold $12 billion worth of bonds to international investors last week — on the same day that the U.S. barred 16 Saudis suspected of participating in Mr. Khashoggi’s death from entering the country.