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build one project for them and likely similar copies will be made tenfold. This was very evident with the first Suzhou project more than a decade ago.
"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me"

SG side needs to find some way to collect royalties or protect their ideas/designs. Even proper city planning is very complex nowadays and designing a new city involves a level of skill and technology which should be protected somewhat intellectually.

Archive report...

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/01/business/worldbusiness/01iht-suzhou.2.t.html

Lack of trained staff to manage and maintain completed projects is something China will have to work on as well.
Its a big step going from farming to building lego. Its an even bigger step from building with Lego to designing Lego packages.

Much better to provide services to the Arabs, I am sure they are better pay masters with much less chance of being conned.