"Are there no businessmen on this thread?
I can guarantee you that if the shoe were reversed, our country would do EXACTLY what the UAE is doing."
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You are absolutely right!
If I'm denied the opportunity to compete in a specific market. I take my business elsewhere.
On a micro scale, I stopped shopping at Target because of their Christmas policies. Why should a huge nationally owned company be any different?
Dubai presses on with port takeover
http://www.metronews.ca/reuters_international.asp?id=135897
DUBAI (Reuters) - Dubai Ports pressed ahead on Thursday with a takeover that gives it control of six major U.S. ports despite a Congress committee vote to block the deal.
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"It's American double standards. Do you think that businesses and governments here won't react and even retaliate?" said Wadah Al Taha of the National Bank of Abu Dhabi.