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Mia Navarro examines how China’s Digital Silk Road is reshaping tech competition in the Gulf, with a focus on the UAE and Saudi Arabia’s push to become regional technology leaders by the 2030s. The piece argues that deeper GCC reliance on Chinese digital infrastructure could raise major intelligence, military, and geopolitical risks for the United States.

Using realism's polarity framework, the current balance of power is assessed between the U.S. and China. However, the polarity method has serious flaws when answering the true power of nations.