Perhaps it is a negotiation tactic for Tun M with the Chinese and Singaporean e.g. ERCL termination, HSR , Forest city etc?
Many Forest city buyers are from both China (majority) and Singapore.

With that scale in mind, it will likely just ended up with another "ghost town" made by Chinese company.

Build by Chinese company, hired Chinese work, bought by Chinese investor, on our own soil and with our own raw materials, which all belongs to sultan.
I don't see how it hugely benefits the local community, seriously.

Most buy are foreigners, out of them only a very small portion will live here.
So far, there isn't many job opportunity down there, it just pure residential, what's the point to live down there with just an expensive price tag.

Johore got so much land, but they rather reclaimed land and give FREEHOLD status.....

Well, I never said it is a good move to ban foreigners. What I mean it is, its a grand and yet super risky project since the very beginning. It mean to target solely on investment  from Foreigners. That's fine but consider with this scale, 1 million of foreigners? (FYI Penang population is 1.767 million).

They change their marketing strategy few times since the project launch due to the political changes around China and Malaysia. Based on the latest ad they put on, I believe it's they try to market it as a vacation home and retirement paradise for Chinese buyers.

You don't expect a vacation home and retirement paradise to spur the economic around in the short period of time but the main problem here is sustainability. Already a lot of example in China, during construction phase, YES! High GDP, economy growth, more factories, more labors.
But what comes after that? If there isn't any population around to sustain the business down there.

Comparing to Mont Kiara isn't ideal, its success story based on a  natural growth of demands and supply. It's also very near to Kuala Lumpur. Forest City, it's more like a  "brute force" development project in every aspect.

"Built it and they will come" they said, but too many question to be asked, too many question left unanswered. We will see, as most of the high rises going to VP around 2019/2020, until it is sustainable, it will just be a dream too good to be true.

sell to local lor...cheap cheap people can buy one..

Not all...

Only china. China will do deal irrespectively of corruption nature.

Less so for japan korea euro n america.

No doubt china tend to be cheaper.

none of those super developments along Iskandar can claim to be successful.

why this forest city be successful?

bring a real architect and see for urself all the structures

u wont amazed

iskandar i only see sunway's development will be successful

all those uem one already fail miserably