Joe Studwell: belief

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…Charter cities, right. It’s like a special economic zone, except more radical. There’s some actual surrender of sovereignty. Like Hong Kong was a charter city of the British Empire. Obviously, they did very well. I think that Africa should and probably will experiment with all sorts of things. I wouldn’t offer it as a prescription, but if there’s a government that’s thinking, right, let’s try this, good luck to them. It’s not impossible. It’s not impossible that it will work just as Hong Kong works for colonial Britain. How permanent do you think are the current borders of Africa, say over the next 30, 40 years? Not 500 years out, but the foreseeable future.…

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