Shortly after opening the largest Covid-19 testing centre outside of China, the United Arab Emirates offered the US embassy hundreds of tests to screen its staff. But the gesture by the UAE — one of the US’s closest regional allies — was met with a rare snub.
“The offer was politely declined,” said a US official. The reason was the involvement of Chinese firms and technology, which raised a “red flag” and concerns about patient privacy, the official added.
The rebuff laid bare lingering tensions between Abu Dhabi and Washington over the UAE’s deepening relationship with China at a time when the Trump administration has been trading verbal blows with Beijing over the coronavirus pandemic.
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