Countries with your favorite politics

[Torie]

When I spent a week in Hong Kong on a legal education junket where we met judges and politicians, I was extremely impressed with both its governance and its courts. Hong Kong is probably the safest large city on the planet, well run, with sensible economic policies and planning, and a very "civil" society, and it manages that without seeming to be like living in a personal strait jacket like Singapore, with too many damn rules on personal expression. Yes, I know Hong Kong is part of China, but it essentially runs its own affairs outside of foreign policy as if it were independent, under the one country, two systems, structure.

[Torie]

Hong Kong has free speech, but there are very strict border controls with the mainland, so the dissident may not be able to travel to Hong Kong. If in Hong Kong, the dissident could say whatever the dissident wants, but I would assume there might be consequences when the dissident returns home.