He often participated in RTHK's weekly talk show City Forum and founded Hong Kong Association of Young Commentators in 2012.

[5] Chow stood again in the September general election, in which led one of the two DAB's tickets in the territory-wide District Council (Second) "super seat" alongside chairwoman Starry Lee.

As the vice-chairman of the Legislative Council select committee to enquire as to the recipient of HK$50 million, Chow was involved in a scandal relating to Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying and Australian engineering firm UGL.

This behind-the-scenes discussion between Leung and Chow was condemned by the pro-democracy camp, and led to some filing complaints to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC).

[6] They warned that the legislature's independence was under threat, as Democratic Party legislator Andrew Wan said the case reflected "the executive branch's unprecedented meddling with a LegCo probe".

[13] Chief Justice Andrew Cheung rejected that notion, said that the judiciary must not bow to political pressure, and that "Never mind what people will say about your decision, you just decide the case regardless according to the law, facts, evidence, argument.

Previously Chow signed a joint statement urging the government to appeal a court's ruling of granting welfare benefits to a gay civil servant for his husband.

[19] Also in March 2021, Chow asked Kevin Yeung if the Education Bureau could suspend teachers if they were suspected of participating in unlawful assemblies but not yet convicted of crimes.

[21] In April 2021, Chow said that the pro-democracy Confederation of Trade Unions was showing private screenings of documentaries of the 2019-20 Hong Kong protests, and that by doing so, they were "promoting terrorism" and violating the national security law.

[22] In response, the CTU's secretary-general said the allegations were meaningless and that Chow and others "have been launching a cultural revolution to criticise people holding different political opinions".

[23] In April 2022, after YouTube suspended John Lee's campaign account, Chow claimed that it was interference by foreign forces in Hong Kong, and that it could stop the polls from being fair.