SG's second medical school

National University of Singapore (NUS) and Duke University School of Medicine to set up the Graduate Medical School...Singapore's second medical school.
(Source: CNA 14 April 2005)

Kinda of wonder why Johns Hopkins University wasn't selected as a partner to NUS since they already have a presence here in Singapore...both on the clinical and the biomedical research front???

Here's some stats (from the USNews.com website) to back why Johns Hopkins would have been a better choice...

2006 Top US medical schools - Research
No1: Harvard University
No2: Johns Hopkins University
No6: Duke University

2006 Top US medical schools - Primary Care
No1: University of Washington
No6: Duke University
No23: Johns Hopkins University

Medical specialties: AIDS
No1: University of California - SF
No2: JHU
No3: Harvard

Medical specialties: Drug/Alcohol abuse
No1: Joint - Harvard/JHU
No3: University of California - LA

Medical specialties: Family Medicine
No1: University of Washington
No2: University of Missouri - Columbia
No3: Oregon Health and Science University

Medical specialties: Geriatrics
No1: JHU
No2: Mount Sinai
No3: University of California - LA

Medical specialties: Internal Medicine
No1: JHU
No2: Harvard
No3: University of California - SF

Medical specialties: Pediatrics
No1: Harvard
No2: University of Pennsylvania
No3: JHU

Medical specialties: Women's Health
No1: Harvard
No2: University of California - SF
No3: University of Pennsylvania

Let's the results speak for themselves...could there be a deeper, darker reason???