PART
1. INTRODUCTION
7. OVERALL ANALYSIS OF PRESENT SITUATION IN HONG KONG
In 1972, under the request of Huang Hwa, China's represent-
ative to the United Nations, Hong Kong and Macau were withdrawn from
the list of colonies. Hong Kong's status as part of China, temporarily
administered by the British Government with the approval of China was
affirmed. Hong Kong's change of status in the United Nations did not
change the political and power structure which has ruled the people
for over a hundred years.
Hong Kong has a population of which 99% are ethnic Chinese. Yet as in all other colonies, it is ruled by a foreign government in which the local people is not represented. Thus we find the people
being governed under laws and rules not made by them, nor for them.
The preceding parts of this report, have provided the facts
of how people's rights are being 'suppressed and how the suppression has
beenfogitimized be laws made by the government. Henceforth, we shall
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proceed and briefly describe the political and governmental struchase
of Hong Kong, and the situation of the people's organizations, in order
to explain why the people has to petition and demonstrate to express
their grievances or political beliefs.
2. THE POLITICAL AND GOVERNMENTAL STRUCTURE
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Hong Kong's present formal governmental structure is con-
structed on the basis of the classical colonial structure ;
governor, executive and legislative councils, and a form of judiciary. Because it is legally colony', it is not
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equipped with the usual paraphernalia of political independ- ence, namely parties, conventions, charismatic of military leaders, and has indeed 'enjoyed' the same government for 130 years. (Peter Harris: Hong Kong- a study in bureau- cratic politica. )
The Hong Kong Governor has the highest governing and decis- ion-making power in Hong Kong. His power covers the four major areas
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