Donald Trump The Neutral Mediator for the India-Pakistan Conflict Arrives in the UAE

 

US President Donald Trump began a visit to the United Arab Emirates on Thursday that is likely to deepen cooperation on artificial intelligence, after hailing plans by Doha to invest $10 billion in a US military facility during a trip to Qatar.

Before his departure for the UAE on the latest stage of a tour of wealthy Gulf states, Trump said in a speech to US troops at the Al Udeid Air Base southwest of Doha that defence purchases signed by Qatar on Wednesday are worth $42 billion.

He then flew to Abu Dhabi, where he was met at the airport by President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and the two leaders visited the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, its white minarets and domes impressive in the late-afternoon light.

"It is so beautiful," Trump told reporters inside the mosque, which he said had been closed for the day.

"First time they closed it. It's in honor of the United States. Better than in honor of me. Let's give it to the country. That's a great tribute."

The UAE's leaders want US help to make their wealthy Gulf nation a global leader in artificial intelligence.

The US has a preliminary agreement with the UAE to allow it to import 500,000 of Nvidia'  most advanced AI chips a year, starting this year, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

The deal would boost the UAE's construction of data centres vital to developing artificial intelligence models. But the agreement has provoked national security concerns among sectors of the US government, and the terms could change