Wall Street Journal: His supporters, often officials who helped America wage the global war on terror and remembered the help Abu Dhabi had offered in fighting Islamic State, saw Gannon’s outreach as a necessary step to reward a critical security ally, and help keep American tech giants in one of the world’s largest AI projects. The U.A.E. was a geopolitical swing state worth bringing further into the American orbit, they argued.
On the other side were national security officials more focused on China, who feared America could be offshoring its most powerful new source of dominance to an adversary. The detractors were nervous that Gannon was obscuring clearcut evidence that both G42 and the U.A.E. shouldn’t be trusted. They believed he had “gone native,” and was helping set the stage for America to surrender its advantage in the defining geopolitical contest of the century…