As a highly disciplined rules-following society with the means and the manpower to build hundreds every year, China would appear ideal for Oasis-Cities. But the Chinese, like all Asian societies – even the otherwise admirable Singapore – lack the spirit of freedom and individualism that only really exists in European-originated societies. So the full potential of OA-Cities – as individualistic self-governing entities – would never be achieved in any Asian society.
PATERNALISTIC and AUTHORITARIAN Asian countries might like the concept in principle, and might build many – but they would NEVER permit any OA-city on their territory to have the slightest degree of political autonomy.
PATERNALISTIC and AUTHORITARIAN Asian countries might like the concept in principle, and might build many – but they would NEVER permit any OA-city on their territory to have the slightest degree of political autonomy.