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Top UAE Official Warns on Risk of ‘Cold War’ Between China, U.S.

Anwar Gargash

Anwar Gargash

Photographer: Karim Sahib/AFP/Getty Images

A top official in the United Arab Emirates has sounded the alarm about escalating tensions between China and the U.S., delivering one of the starkest regional warnings yet about competition between the two powers.

“We’re all worried, very much, by a looming Cold War,” UAE presidential diplomatic adviser Anwar Gargash said Saturday at a conference in the capital, Abu Dhabi. “That is bad news for all of us because the idea of choosing is problematic in the international system, and I think this is not going to be an easy ride.”