By
Riad Kahwaji
on February 23, 2021 at 4:34 PM
The China-Emirates Science and Technology Innovation Laboratory at IDEX 2021 in Abu Dhabi.
DUBAI: In the midst of all the intense activities at the International Defence Exhibition (IDEX) in Abu Dhabi — including the buzz generated by the first-ever presence of an Israeli pavilion — exhibitors and participants could not help but notice one big thing was missing: the high-level U.S. official delegations.
If anybody had any doubt that the U.S. relations with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) were going tough times after the Biden Administration suspended major arms sales, the recessive American presence at IDEX drove the point home unmistakably.