Like other Gulf countries, Qatar 's image as "local tyrant" is also supported by oil and gas resources. The difference is that natural gas accounts for the majority of Qatar's energy wealth. At a time when ecological development is increasingly becoming the main theme, coal and oil are industrial basic energy sources that countries around the world want to get rid of. So Qatar, which has the third largest natural gas reserve in the world, especially all natural gas reserves, is concentrated in a gas field. This country, which seems to be " day chooser " should have made great achievements. But the fact is that the internal single and deformed economic structure, the expression of people's faces on the lifeblood of the economy, the open and secret struggles of religious factions, and the multiple restrictions on the overall size... all kinds of problems make this rich country in the eyes of outsiders not as bright and beautiful as everyone sees. Qatar, under the appearance of sentient beings, vividly explains to us what money cannot change, is the difference between the essence of all things from the beginning to the end.
There are a large number of foreign workers, and the national security threatened by the threat
Gulf countries are generally willing to use foreign workers to complete various low-end tasks. The population of foreign workers has accounted for more than 37% of the total population in the Gulf region, Saudi Arabia has a population of 32.28 million, and the number of foreign workers exceeds 8 million, accounting for more than 30%. The proportion of foreign workers in the UAE and Kuwait in the proportion of their permanent population reached 89% and 59% respectively. The reason why
has this phenomenon is mainly because foreign workers are cheap and easy to control when they are away from home. For a long time, the treatment of foreign workers in the Middle East has been often criticized by people. Most of these foreign workers come from low-income countries such as India, Egypt , Pakistan , Bangladesh , Indonesia and other countries. In addition to general social services, oil extraction, smelting and other industries, as pillar industries, are also using a large number of foreign workers.
On the one hand, the situation of foreign workers is very bad, causing a huge split in the concepts of the upper and lower levels. On the other hand, the employment issues of the civilian class in the country will inevitably have conflicts of interest with the increasing number of foreign workers. Nowadays, the most heard on the streets of the Gulf Six Kingdoms is probably not Arabic , but Hindi or English. The service industry in many places has basically been a situation where Indian and Pakistani people dominate the world. At present, even higher-level industries such as banks, insurance, postal and telecommunications, foreign workers account for an increasing proportion. When the proportion of foreign workers becomes larger and the production positions and social status gradually increases, conflicts between foreign workers and their own nations will become an inevitable and difficult to ambiguous problem.
In short, for any country, a large influx of foreign population, diluting the proportion of the main ethnic group will threaten their national survival and national security in the long run.
invades the texture, and foreign workers who are difficult to peel off depend on
When the problem is really a problem, it is not just a problem. The foreign workers who were originally intended to serve their own country have now formed a form of threatening national security.
Gulf countries have obviously realized this problem long ago. In recent years, proposals such as tightening immigration policies and restricting entry of foreign personnel have been proposed more than once, but in the end they were left unresolved. On the one hand, this is due to the nomadic living habits of the Arab nation, which makes them indeed less diligent than foreign workers, and hiring them obviously requires higher salaries and more complete labor security.
On the other hand, the more important reason is probably because the social operations of these countries have long been heavily dependent on foreign workers. If a large number of foreign workers leave, the social operations of these countries will probably be paralyzed. This is how many problems are. The later they are, the less they can be solved. In the future, the real big trouble for the six Gulf countries is probably not Syria or Israel, but their own foreign population problems.
" Shawshank Redemption " is a sentence that I think is perfect: "At first you hated this wall, but later you adapted to this wall, and in the end you became inseparable from this wall, so you became this wall."
Religious disputes and economic lifeline
Qatar has the world's third largest natural gas reserve, and its natural gas reserves are almost concentrated in a natural gas field - the largest known natural gas field in the world - South Pass natural gas field.
This gas field that supports Qatar's national transportation is located in Persian Gulf , with an area of about 9,700 square kilometers, of which 3,700 square kilometers are located in the waters of Iran. It is called The "Nan Pas Gas Field" has a remaining 6,000 square kilometers, located in the waters of Qatar, called the "Northern Gas Field" - it contains 14% of the world's natural gas reserves. This means that Qatar is actually sharing the same gas field with Iran, and Qatar, which is much smaller than Iran, accounts for more than 61% of the gas reserves.
Compared with Arab countries, The Iranians' combat power is still much stronger. For Qatar, as long as the Iranians move their hands and feet around the Strait of Hormuz (the only passage in and out of the Persian Gulf, the widest place is only 125 kilometers, and the narrowest place is only 56 kilometers), it will be enough for it to be uncomfortable for a while. In this case, it is certainly not difficult to understand the mood of Qatar when facing Iran: he is afraid of "being guilty of possessing a treasure", on the one hand, he has to establish good relations with Iran as much as possible, and on the other hand, he must have other seas The Gulf countries "club together" to gain a sense of security, and at the same time, they must follow the United States closely to obtain military and diplomatic asylum.
Moderately show good behavior to Iran, which is stuck in the lifeline of the economy. Although it is a reasonable thing in the eyes of outsiders, we should not forget a major premise, that is, the difference in religious factions. Iran is currently the largest belief in Islam Shiite country, with 1 " GCC " composed of six countries such as Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman is Sunni . Therefore, the compromise that seems normal to outsiders has completely changed in the eyes of other Sunni countries. The behavior of winking with the "enemy" is undoubtedly a naked betrayal, which is the least they want to see.
In addition, the Qatar royal family gave themselves The political goals set far exceed its national size. It has always been stealing the limelight with Saudi Arabia, which is much larger than itself - a population of 300,000 vs. 30 million, and Israel, which is fighting the entire Arab world, has a population of more than 8 million.
After this 99% straw that broke the camel's back, an incredible redemption incident caused many countries to submit a breakdown bill to Qatar.
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The future Middle East pattern
What I am talking about is not just Qatar, and Qatar is not an exception. Through Qatar, we need to see the huge problems existing in Middle Eastern countries at present, not just the singleization of industries, the distortion of economic structure, the foreign worker impacted by population structure and concepts, and the multipleization of religious beliefs ... In this fertile land of the crescent moon, the glory of Arab civilization is still shining continuously, Resolution of religion may be the only way to the Middle East in the future, and this will inevitably be the way for India to break through the future.
Therefore, when a new Mohammedan leader was born on this magical land, I would not doubt that the future world pattern will be like this: the Christian civilization of the West, the Islamic civilization of the Middle East, the Indian civilization of South Asia and the Chinese civilization of East Asia.
But the road is long and arduous, and I will search up and down.
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