72. Wu Jianfan, note 14 above p.67 and Zang Youyu, note 42 above p.9.
73. Art.48(4) of the Basic Law.
74.
The Chinese have logically and consistently maintained that sovereignty is transferred to the PRC
and not to the people of Hong Kong and that the PRC creates the SAR and endows it with the necessary powers and facilities to operate as a local government authority of the PRC: see Annual Review 1985, p 299. They have also consistently maintained that "only the Central People's Government can, and is entitled to, speak on behalf of the people of Hong Kong": Vice Premier Wu Xueqian quoted in Keesing 1991, p 3761. It is not to be expected that they would see that there is a conflict of interest between their representation of the Central Authorities and their asserted representation of the future SAR.
75. See, for example, the reports in the Times Newspaper on 8th April 1991 on the airport, on 29 May 1991 on borrowings and on 7 June 1991 on the Human Rights legislation
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