# The UAE and China elevate a comprehensive strategic partnership

Date: 2018

## The fact

In July 2018, during [Xi Jinping](/people/env-person-xi-jinping)’s visit, the UAE and China elevated relations to a comprehensive strategic partnership covering energy, 5G-era technology and investment. [Mohamed bin Zayed](/people/mohamed-bin-zayed-al-nahyan) was the UAE principal.

## Context

Xi visited. ADNOC and Huawei-era tech sat in the weather. He did not write a Chinese statute. Later US pressure on Huawei is neighbouring.

Abraham Accords are 2020. I2U2 is 2022.

The president of the United Arab Emirates is elected by the Federal Supreme Council of the seven emirates and is, in this case, also Ruler of Abu Dhabi and supreme commander of the armed forces. He does not write UNFCCC consensus texts by himself, IAEA operating licences, Israeli Knesset statutes, or UN panel reports.

## Evidence and sources

Emirates News Agency carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

## What is established and what is not

Established: a July 2018 UAE–China comprehensive strategic partnership elevation, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later port-throughput coefficient, or that Huawei uniquely captured UAE networks that week.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Xi visited. ADNOC and tech firms implement. The US later pressed on vendors.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies The UAE and China elevate a comprehensive strategic partnership, not a later speech about The UAE and China elevate a comprehensive strategic partnership.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. The UAE and China elevate a comprehensive strategic partnership on 2018-07-20 is not a licence to treat every later Emirates News Agency communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average The UAE and China elevate a comprehensive strategic partnership into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He was UAE principal. Xi visited. ADNOC and tech firms implement. The US later pressed on vendors. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan: https://factrail.ai/people/mohamed-bin-zayed-al-nahyan

## Drivers

- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism
- Energy Security: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-security

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-emirates-china-idUSKBN1KA0K4
- https://www.wam.ae/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-china-comprehensive-partnership