Don't know how much weight he holds around here but around the time of the Nintendo announcement WDW1974 said Beijing would get Nintendo.I believe all of the above. Before Comcast owned USJ, USJ had a good amount of control on how a project played out, where it was located as well as operations.
Update: If true, does this mean that Singapore and Beijing and Russia have no chance of ever hosting Nintendo in any way?
I have never offered this before, but Singapore has some weird independence from Universal Parks unlike any of their other parks. I am not sure of the particulars, but it does.