the declaration of a state of war with other countries or territories, the severance of diplomatic relation ship with other countries, etc.
(c) The defence of China as a state including the HKSAR shall certainly be the responsibility of the Central Government, but Hong Kong's internal security should be managed by the Hong Kong Government. However, there is a close connection between nation- al defence and internal security and, very often, measures taken for national defence would affect the administration of the internal affairs of a local government. For instance, should the Central Govern- ment be entitled to resume any piece of land in Hong Kong or to use the harbour of Hong Kong in the way it chooses for military purposes? Should the Central Goverment be able to classify some matters of internal security in Hong Kong as affecting the security of the whole state and therefore claim a right to intervene in these matters? Should the Security Bureau of China be entitled to take action in Hong Kong for reasons of national security, and effect the arrest of spies? As regards the question of the station of troops in Hong Kong, in what place should the troops be normally stationed? Could they move freely in and out of the city district? If the stationed troops shall have the responsibility of coping with disturbances and riots, should they only act with the consent or at the request of the Hong Kong Government? If a member of the stationed troops infringes the law, can the Hong
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Kong Government deal with him according to Hong Kong law? All these are real problems and should not be neglected.
(d) The Central Government, including the NPC as the highest law-making body of the State, have the power to make the Basic Law of the HKSAR and to super- vise its implementation. Certainly, in the course of exercising such power, the Central Government should preserve a high degree of automony of the HKSAR and should respect the general wishes of the Hong Kong people.
(e) As Hong Kong is part of China, should Hong Kong be entitled to the same rights of participation in the Chinese Central Government as other provinces or municipal cities? If so, Hong Kong shall be able to share the obligation with other local governments of China in making its best endeavours to promote the state interest of China. This would be another con- crete manifestation of the sovereignty of China over Hong Kong.
(2) How should a high degree of autonomy of the HKSAR
be defined and implemented?
(a) Powers of self-government with a high degree of au- tonomy should include a general and full range of executive, legislative and judicial powers. The Hong Kong Government will have to administer a separate and different political, administrative, economic, social and cultural system from Mainland China. This will be almost a totally self-contained and self-
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