Economy

Beijing keeps treading carefully around conflict in the Middle East while seeking opportunities to deepen ties with key country partners through a longer-term regional engagement strategy.

Silicon Valley is exploring offshoring some of its compute demand. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are positioning themselves to capture some of it.

The United Arab Emirates’ space industry is entering a new phase of maturity, as private Emirati firms play an increasingly active role alongside government entities and international partnerships.

Attacks on the East-West oil pipeline and other targets in Saudi Arabia will result in a larger-than-expected economic contraction in the kingdom this year.

The UAE’s decision to halt trade and commercial ties with Iran reflects an exercise in applying carefully calibrated geoeconomic pressure amid an uncertain and evolving geopolitical context.

How the Gulf states choose to invest now could determine not just how they survive this crisis but how they sustain their role as both allocators and magnets of capital and superpowers in the global energy system.

Gulf countries are at the center of an emerging regional economic infrastructure expansion, but the implications will be global in nature.

On September 9, AGSI hosted a discussion on Gulf infrastructure development post-Iran war.