The GCC’s open-door economic policy is at a crossroads as geo-fragmentation rises and the US-China rivalry heats up. A long-held policy of the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is to forge commercial ties with countries around the world, regardless of their political inclinations. Amid geoeconomic headwinds, that policy now hangs in the balance. Western attempts to decouple from China and a drastic turnabout in US trade policy are “key strategic” concerns for leaders and executives in