China aims to become the Middle East’s “digital arbiter” by building reasonable knowledge networks and offering surveillance software to autocratic regimes, all in a move toward its regional influence, the most sensible U. S. military communications official in the region said on Tuesday. “It’s things from a computational standpoint that are causing us harm in this region,” Brig said. General Tina Boyd, director of command and control, communications and computer systems at U. S. Central Command, or CENTCOM. Boyd said that while this doesn’t pose a direct threat to the military, it’s not something the U. S. military is not…