With all the politiking over the ports across North America, including Vancouver [mbv], being bought out by an Arab country and the concerns of terrorism that’s raising both across the political spectrum and across the world, it’s interesting to see a post from Metroblogging’s Dubai site that looks at Dubai and the United Arab Emirates, the nation whose government is buying P&O the port management company at the centre of the storm, as the next great world city [mbd].

I’ll spoon feed you two interesting quotes, though reading the entire post is recomended. The first is on why Dubai is poised to become so important:

Dubai sits on the all-important strategic routeway of the modern world: China, India, Middle East, Europe and the US. That is where the money is going to be. China has just become the third biggest economy in the world and it is the fastest growing. India is set for its own acceleration.

The next one is about the promise of Dubai, about how its citizens see the city and their nation in the future:

Is Dubai, in fact, the fulcrum of the future global trading and financial system? Is it, in embryo, what London was to the 19th century and Manhattan to the 20th? Not the modern centre of the Arab world but, more than that, the Arab centre of the modern world.

As you might be able to tell from the quotes the article is very well written, posted by Dan Q. It also has some fantastic photography to go along with it, and so please go check it out and visit the rest of their wonderful site too [mbv], being bought out by an Arab country and the concerns of terrorism that’s raising both across the political spectrum and across the world, it’s interesting to see a post from Metroblogging’s Dubai site that looks at Dubai and the United Arab Emirates, the nation whose government is buying P&O the port management company at the centre of the storm, as the next great world city [mdb].