the pressure to converge" in International Affairs, Vol
63 pp 271-283.
40.
Xiao Weiyun, note 27 above at pp 102 and 107.
41.
Arts.43 and 46 of the Basic Law.
42.
Chinese policy is "Hong Kong people ruling Hong
Kong". "We cannot allow the continuation of the British
colonial system, wherein foreigners or local scoundrels
pandering to foreign interests ruled Hong Kong"! Zang
Youyu, Deputy Chairman of the NPC's Legal Committee in
'The Reasons for and Basic Principles in formulating
the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Basic Law'
etc in Journal of Chinese Law Vol 2 No 1 p 13.
43. Annex I to the Basic Law and Decision of the NPC
on the Formation of the First Government etc. of the
SAR, 4th April 1990.
44.
'Views of visiting mainland drafters' in BLCC Reference
paper (1).
45. Cf. art.48(8) of the Basic Law and art II of the
Letters Patent for Hong Kong 1917-1990.
46. Art. 48(5) and section 2 of Chapter IV of the Basic
Law.
47.
Arts.54-56 of the Basic Law.
48.
One of the few voices which pressed for full democracy
in Hong Kong was the House of Commons Foreign Affairs
Committee, which stated that it believed "that full
democracy must be introduced before 1997"; HC 281-1,
p.xiii.