> 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, not outsiders.

What if the outsiders are better at governance and development than the locals? As a Bangladeshi, I’d rather have Americans administering Bangladesh than Bangladeshis. Though I’d rather have Germans administer America than Americans…

> Telling the locals you know better than they do about how their region should be administered, while giving yourself the ability to exploit the living crap out of them thanks to your privileged position of being a foreigner is roughly how colonialism was carried out.

Hong Kong turned out pretty nicely before China took it back.