Well, you gotta slow down there a bit. They will spread out a lot. The Goldprice was cheap and the Oil money needed to go somewhere. Town building is a very old aristocratic way of securing and building a fortune. The Saudis, to which the Emirates and also Yemenites ethnically belong mixing only in Iraq with Persians, are actually Nomads.
Oil turned them rich, but also into troubled water with rich and powerful others.
Building a town for mainly trade with a Luxurious Ghetto made a lot of sense as a high return risc with money that has a bad taste and many thought was better to have avoided.
Dubai is not the Big Monaco. Dubai is a Blue Print and Proof of Concept for a world after Hegemonial rule that will see no main center, but more spots below New York, London and Hong Kong.
Dublin and Singapore will soon find more neighbours on their virtual geography of finance and trade such as Logos, Bangkok and Sao Paolo. Some areas that already have no main spot unlike Germany with Frankfurt will create mini Dubais in areas like Bangalore, New Dheli, Casablanca, Cairo and God knows.
Brasil and Egypt building new administrative centers doomed to fail in a world in which national administrative systems fail, while Dubai is so successful they triggered another town.
All main financial centers will, as London created Dublin as a Eurozone financial center, create mini subsidiaries world wide of which Dubai is the school lecture example to be adjusted locally.
China has build ports all over Africa and layed with BRISC the paper work to have the Sheiques of The Arabic Peninsula build more High-Risers in Casablanca and Abidjan and Singapore invest in Vietnamese and Laot communist towns.
I told you Big P. No Hegemony is not enough. Mother R will be all fine as one among many.
Promised.
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