concessions are embodied in allowing "two systems" to
flourish these cannot be allowed by China to undermine
unified national sovereignty.. ("All within the four
seas are brothers..." and all Chinese nationals will be
under one flag).
b.
Provision is made for it in article 31 of the State
Constitution.
C. It is not a variant of federation.
d. The Joint Declaration on Hong Kong spells out in
great detail many aspects of the different systems in
Hong Kong which will be able to continue after 1 July
1997. That they will do so is Chinese Government
policy and, as elaborated in Annex 1 to the Joint
Declaration, they will be stipulated (guiding
a Basic Law of the Hong Kong SAR.
e.
) in
There is a public and binding commitment by China in
the Joint Declaration that her policies giving Hong Kong
"a high degree of autonomy, except in foreign and defence
affairs" will "remain unchanged for 50 years".
B
4. There are two recent authoritative sources for Chinese
views on how the concept applies to Hong Kong. First,
Deng (see attached copy of a speech which is the best
source of his views).
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