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I don't think all these Suzhou project make any money, maybe the opposite. It's more like doing China a favour at the early days, until they realise there is not much skills to acquire. Perhaps all the collaboration nowadays is more like having some fringe activities to keep ties going.

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.