Saudi-Arabia
2 articles
- The Saudi Bypass Is a Hedge with Wrong-Way Risk
Saudi export capacity is constrained by the maritime leg linking Yanbu to global markets. Correlated Hormuz and Red Sea risks reduce the East-West pipeline's value as a disruption hedge.
- The Sovereign Compute Verification Problem: Why Identity Proofing Is the New Export-Control Bottleneck
U.S. export control has shifted from controlling chips to controlling access. The resulting bottleneck is verification: restrictions based on location, ownership, or nationality cannot be enforced without identity-proofing infrastructure across hardware, cloud, model, and bilateral-governance layers.