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These two factors in my view make attempts to compare the arrangements for a future Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to the existing arrangements for autonomous regions largely beside the point. The existing arrangements are at best a very unreliable guide to the way in which the Chinese envisage arrangements for Hong Kong. The Chinese have tended to view legal arrangements as guides to rather than determinants of their actions in administrative affairs. When necessary they can do without them. The Revolutionary Committees for example managed to function for several years without any legislative foundation whatever. The present leadership is much more committed to observing legal formalities, but it would be naive to presume that legal provisions would prevent them taking any course of action they saw fit.
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