[al Identify areas on which touchpoints will exist lawfully between the two systems, and predict those which will occur unlawfully.
[b] Identify training courses already available to Chinese and Hongkong administrators in the current concepts and issues of administration and management in government.
[cl Identify the thinking in each place on the proper relationship between central, regional, and local government, and between then and multi-national companies, and public and private businesses.
[d] Identify the thinking at a senior level about the machinery for the implementation and monitoring of special problems of public administratiou, including the co-ordination between departments, and the introduction and implementation of new policies. In relation to the latter, relations between government and the media and between government and the private sector in Hongkong are very important indeed.
8. I assume that the answers to some of the above would follow from the terms of the BL and the JD; but I remember too the fear in Hongkong that within the PRC a a whole "law has been and continues to be party policy made perfect", and "the moment the political norms change, so tou the legal system is forced to adjust". Thus it is feared that post-1997 this attitude will act as a corrosive agent on provisions underpinning the autonomy of the HKSAR. It would be helpful to know what the BL says on the above.
9. This brings me to the other area of preparation needed before I travel. Standing alongside the fear referred to above was the rationale for incorporating the human rights covenants into Hongkong law and making them fully justiciable. I remember this being based on the belief that all decisions concerning "rights" will raise at the political level in the PRC issues of ideological principle which are unlikely to be resolved in favour of liberty as it is understood in the common law. Everybody knows that it was agreed between the UK and the PRC that "after the
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socialist policies shall not be practised in the HKSAR and that Hong Kong's previous capitalist system and life-style shall remain unchanged for 50 years". Nonetheless, was expressed to me on my last visit that once Blongkong has been reunited with "the motherland", the guiding principle in the PRC of "seeking truth from facts", while it required one thing before reunification, may militate under Chinese sovereignty towards the realities of preparing for au
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