It's more like an 'Asianization' than an Americanization, hence the whole 'Singapore on the Thames' idea. It's adopting the business practices and regulations of the US and a very paternalistic, centralized state.

The US for all the lack of controls that citizens have over business at the very least has a very federalised (in the Euro sense of the term), distribution of power, whereas Britain is pretty much governed from London.