Jared Cohen, the young historian turned president of global affairs at Goldman Sachs, once said, “When people think of digital diplomacy, they think of government tweeting. It is not what it is. That is public diplomacy only.”
In the immediate aftermath of President Donald Trump’s triumphant swing through the Gulf states, the details of the administration’s artificial intelligence agreements remain under wraps. Yet, the broad contours are already clear. By pledging to build hyperscale data centers in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates stocked with cutting‑edge U.S. chips, Washington has publicly reaffirmed the global reach of the American AI stack — semiconductors, algorithms, and the data that feed them — at the expense of China’s rival offering, manifest most visibly in Huawei’s stalled contracts across the region.
