> Why on earth would anyone support charter cities? Cities are a community of people and should be owned, operated, legislated by and accountable to the communi

> Why on earth would anyone support charter cities? Cities are a community of people and should be owned, operated, legislated by and accountable to the community You answered your own question. There are many places in the world that have unaccountable governments with terrible legal systems. The idea of charter cities is to have better civic software that what is available locally. > Remember what happened there two years ago through present? Hong Kong did fine as long as CCP respected the One Country, Two Systems policy. Things only got bad when they tried to crack down on it. I don't see how it advances your arguments.