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The United Arab Emirates' defense, energy, technology and foreign policy and the decisions of its leadership, covering military procurement and the defense industry, energy strategy, sovereign investment and AI ambitions, key officials, and the UAE's relations with regional and global powers.
The UAE is navigating the war as the GCC's most agile but most exposed actor, cutting economic and financial ties with Iran under US pressure while managing a deepening rift with Riyadh.
This country hub tracks MBZ, Sheikh Tahnoon, Sheikh Mansour, Crown Prince Khaled, Mohammad Al-Mazrouei and Khaldoon Al Mubarak across EDGE Group, G42, MGX, ADQ, Mubadala, ADNOC and Tawazun.
Coverage spans G42's US majority-ownership talks, the Country Group A:5 export upgrade and STA reviews of EDGE companies, the Germany reset after MBZ's state visit and Jens Plötner's talks on export approvals, France's draft Rafale F4/F5 framework, EDGE Europe's expansion into France, the Nordics, Italy and Brazil, SkyDefender and interceptor sustainment, the naval shift toward mine countermeasures, ADNOC's West-East pipeline, Ruwais LNG and storage beyond Hormuz, Tahnoon's Turkey-Israel mediation on Syria and his media initiatives, the MBZ-MBR balance on Iran trade, and the UAE-Korea and UAE-UK files.
The benchmark intelligence resource on Abu Dhabi.
