Towards A Hundred Hong Kongs, Ctd

Laura Freschi won't be jumping on the charter cities bandwagon:

These ideas share an overly-optimistic belief in a neutral,benevolent international community and its power to peacefully overseeimposed changes. All are tone-deaf to the very real degree ofnationalism that does exist in basically all countries by now,regardless of whether they were misbegotten colonial creations or not.They also violate sovereignty as conventionally defined, which may begood or bad but is sure to provoke a...