UAE is best understood as an international haven (tax, airline passenger routing, container transboarding) operated by expats (the fearful rich from authoritari

UAE is best understood as an international haven (tax, airline passenger routing, container transboarding) operated by expats (the fearful rich from authoritarian countries, westerners administrating an EMEA operation, workers from India), and controlled by Emiratis (100% of police, judiciary, government decision-taking) They represent only 20% of the population in their own country (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expatriates_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates#:~:text=Most%20expatriates%20in%20the%20United,world's%20highest%20percentage%20of%20expatriates https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expatriates_in_the_United_Ar....) So, it makes no sense engaging the volatile expat population in this project, and they just don't have the critical human resources to do it within their population. They do like vanity projects, though. See also: Burj Khalifa, Palm Jumeirah, Mall with a ski slope, Mall with a whale aquarium, etc Source: did an internship in this quite weird place