Artificial intelligence (AI) and digital infrastructure have emerged as new theatres for diplomacy, and Bahrain is taking a pragmatic approach, balancing engagement with both US and China – the leading state powers in the field, according to a recently published study. The ‘Polycentric Power Plays: Gulf Agency and the Dynamics of China’s AI Diplomacy’ study in the open-access, peer-reviewed ‘Communication and the Public’ journal examines China’s AI diplomacy across all six GCC states, finding that the region is strategically using digital sovereignty and flexible alignment to maximise political autonomy amid intensifying US-China competition in AI .
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