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I think the Abu Dhabi campus is just one symptom of the greater problem the author is making.

Dubai and Abu Dhabi haven't always had the best relations - they're both Emirates but that doesn't mean that they agree on everything.

Without those hostages situation, right now Iran might have been on par with Dubai/Abu Dhabi or similar.

What about that Abu Dhabi story about a Sheikh Issa torturing a grain merchant on tape.

Abu Dhabi is a rich city (they got oil) and they usually pay more than Dubai.

Abu Dhabi is much more conservative than Dubai and there is some friction there that is getting magnified by the financial aspects.

Presumably they don't want the government of Abu Dhabi fabbing chips for them.

I can walk out of the aeroport in San Francisco, Paris, Austin or Abu Dhabi and have an Uber fueled and ready.

>The experimental craft, which is covered in 17,000 solar cells, took off from Abu Dhabi in March.

It seems like the real shock to the world markets was that Abu Dhabi stood quiet instead of immediately stepping in to guarantee at least some of the money.

A fresh graduate working in Abu Dhabi earns 60k+ a year, gets a free piece of land and a $400,000 loan interest free to build a house on that piece of land.

There is definitely the fiscal policy aspects (Abu Dhabi has good reason to let Dubai and its backers know that it will not necessarily bail them out) and there are also socio-cultural aspects as well.

In Abu Dhabi there is fleet of taxis which are "GPS controlled".

WikiLeaks claims that "A document listing the subscriptions that needed renewal by 1 January 2010 details a series of contributory sums meant for two dozen publications in Damascus, Abu Dhabi, Beirut, Kuwait, Amman and Nouakchott.

But then I checked Wikipedia and: "After a claimed investment by Virgin Group of US$100 million, in 2010 the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi, Aabar Investments group, acquired a 31.8% stake in Virgin Galactic for US$280 million, receiving exclusive regional rights to launch tourism and scientific research space flights from the United Arab Emirates capital.

All of what you mention can be true and I still find it comical to say "NYU eats world." The British Empire "ate the world." Many people have wrote "Google eats the world." Grand real estate ambitions in NYC and a giant satellite campus in Abu Dhabi is not eating the world.

The article does not mention that similar setups are already in operation in Schipol airport and Abu Dhabi.

A friend of mine teaches at an international school in Abu Dhabi.

He wasn't arrested in the US, he was arrested in Abu Dhabi.