Omg, that’s awesome! Please do it Governor Polis!

New Hong Kong City, Colorado. I like the sound of that.

Colorado, would become the new Mecca of delicious Cantonese cuisine and Dim Sum eateries. As well as, all the technical, math, financial, and medical talent, that you can extract from the Hong Kongers. Their children would become the future engineers and doctors in America.

It would unleash a new golden age for Colorado! And bring in massive amounts of tax revenue too!

I think the major moral objection people have to charter cities is that they feel exploitative of the host nation. Proposals seem to take the form "we'll take some rich Westerners, and put them in a host nation where they don't have to follow the local rules, and the host nation will benefit because the Westerners will hire them for labor" - it's very hard to distinguish this from colonialism. Few people think it's a bad thing to have e.g. Indian tribal governments, which are indistinguishable from what a charter city would be.

I hear Sitka is lovely this time of year.

(Explaining the joke: that's where the alternate history in _The Yiddish Policemen's Union_ put its post-WW2 Jewish diaspora.)

it has been already done on the other side of the Pacific by Stalin in 1928 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast