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Most Chinese and definitely most Singaporeans are not going to be desperate for a green card so there is a bit more security but just as with anything you need to use discernment in general in Asia I think that Western guys have the pitfalls women have in the West. You see a lot of guys going after the female equivalent of "chad" and guys that say they want a traditional wife spend all their time serially dating girls who hang out in expat bars and fucking up their lives. But in general most Chinese-Western marriages seem to have tension from the women being too traditional and listening too much to her parents. In general I think it's fairly easy to find a solid woman here. And anyway I don't really suggest it as a way to avoid western women so much as for a white guy dating here is very easy and most of the women fit your requirements before very few tattoos much more conservative dating culture a lot of practical career minded smart women. But Chinese women are not going to be happy if you start talking about being submissive or be anti-feminist, and to a lot of them the appeal of dating a westerner is moving away from Chinese traditional expectations, that sad I think most here would find their ideas of feminism rather quaint and not really what you are trying to avoid. There's also not a huge class gap foreign men here date college educated middle class women because the speak English
My big point about dating abroad is that you should fish in the pond for the fish you want to catch and your "impossible standards" become just well standard. For me I didn't really move abroad for dating but after I did I noticed dating became much easier just from being an exotic foreigner. The guys who really get burned are the ones who date totally untraditional women or date more than they can keep. A paunchy 60 year old dating a 20 year old farm girl yes is just setting himself up for failure but you can punch above your weight and since you are capable of attracting women on dates in the US dating outside the west will be like shooting fish in a barrel. Most women are not mercenary green card hunters most want a high value man. And most non-Western women are more socially conservative than western women and whatever acculturation that core remains. Though again I just like dating people removed from the endless culture war in the West.
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