I wonder if that's true. Suppose Bejiing vanished tomorrow in a puff of smoke. Would anyone in Shenzhen care? Ditto, Washington DC and San Francisco. In the

I wonder if that's true. Suppose Bejiing vanished tomorrow in a puff of smoke. Would anyone in Shenzhen care? Ditto, Washington DC and San Francisco. In the parlance of our times, city-states may be all you need.