President Donald Trump pledged on Thursday to strengthen US ties with the United Arab Emirates in a visit to the state of the Gulf that is expected to deepen cooperation in artificial intelligence.
Trump began a visit to the EAU in the last stage of a tour of the Gulf’s rich states after hosting Doha’s plans to invest $ 10 billion in an American military installation during a trip to Qatar.
“I absolutely have no doubt that the relationship will only become bigger and better,” Trump said in a meeting with the president of the EAU, Sheikh Mohamed Bin, Zayed al Nahyan.
“His wonderful brother came to Washington a few weeks ago and told us about his generous statement about 1.4 billion,” Trump said, referring to a promise of the EAU to invest $ 1.4TN in the United States for 10 years.
Trump referred to the Sheikh Tahnoon Bin Zayed al Nahyan, Sheikh Mohamed’s brother and the Eau National Security Advisor and president of two of Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth funds.
“And all I can say is thank you very much,” Trump added.
“We will work very hard to deserve it.”
Sheikh Mohamed told Trump that the EAA were “anxious to continue and strengthen this friendship for the benefit of the two countries and peoples,” which adds to Trump: “His presence here today, his excellence, the president, confirms that this sharpness is mutual.”
Before his departure for the EAU, Trump said in a speech to the US troops at the Air Base to the Udeid to the southwest of Doha that defense purchases signed by Qatar on Wednesday are worth $ 42 billion.
He was received at Abu Dhabi airport by Sheikh Mohamed, and the two leaders visited the great Sheikh Zayed mosque, their mine and white domes, impressive at the end of the afternoon light.
“It’s so beautiful,” Trump told journalists inside the mosque, which he had been closed for the day.
“The first time closed it. It is in honor of the United States. Better than in honor of me. Give them to the country. That is a great tribute.”
The EAU leaders want us to help their rich Gulf nation be a world leader in artificial intelligence (AI).
The United States has a preliminary agreement with the EAU to allow you to import 500,000 of the most advanced NVIDIA chips per year, from this year, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
The agreement would boost the construction of vital EAU data centers to develop AI models.
But the agreement has caused national security concerns between the United States government sectors, and the terms could change, the sources said.
In the presidential palace, Trump and Sheikh Mohamed could be seen in television images in a conversation with the CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang.
Trump said he would probably return to Washington on Friday after a regional trip that began on Tuesday, although he said it was “almost an unknown destination, because they will receive calls, ‘Could you be here? Could you be there?'”
Trump had hinted that he could stop in Istanbul to talk about Ukraine.
The two countries have finished a framework technology agreement that was expected to be signed later on Thursday, a source with knowledge of the matter said Reuters.
The agreement requires commitments on both sides with the security of technology, said the source, without providing details immediately.
Offers, diplomacy
Some large companies have been signed during Trump’s four -day swing through the Gulf region, including an agreement for Qatar Airways to buy up to 210 Boeing Widebody airplanes, a commitment of $ 600 billion of Saudi Arabia to invest in the US and $ 142 billion in sales of weapons from the United States to the Kingdom.
The trip has also brought a wave of diplomacy.
Trump said in Qatar that the United States was approaching a lot to ensure a nuclear agreement with Iran, and that Tehran had “agreed” according to the terms.
He also announced on Tuesday that the United States would eliminate long-standing sanctions against Syria and subsequently met with the interim president Sirio Ahmed al-Sharaa.
He urged Sharaa to establish ties with the enemy of Syria, Israel.
It is likely that AI is a focus of the final stage of Trump’s trip.
The administration of the former president of the United States, Joe Biden, had imposed a strict supervision of the US chips exports. UU. To the Middle East and other regions.
Among the fears of the Biden administration were that the precious semiconductors would be deviated to China and reinforce Beijing’s military force.
Trump has made the improvement of ties with some gulf countries a key objective of his administration.
If all the chip agreements proposed in the Gulf states, and the EAU in particular, join, the region would become a third energy center in the global competence of AI after the United States and China.
Trump compared his visit to Saudi Arabia with one of his predecessor in 2022, when Biden gave the Saudi heir prince a fist blow.
“I sho more hands, more than any human being is able to do,” Trump told reporters in Air Force One.
“He travels to Saudi Arabia, in that case, and gives him a fist. That is not what they want. They don’t want a fist. They want to shake hands.”
