and making them fully justiciable. I would like to get a better understandng of this issue as well.
10. I remember from my last visit to Hongkong the concern 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 by common lawyers. It was agreed between the UK and the PRC that "after the establishment of the HKSAR the socialist system and 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, the fear exists that once Hongkong has been reunited with "the motherland", the guiding principle in the PRC of "seeking truth from facts", which has required one thing before reunification, may militate under Chinese sovereignty towards the realities of preparing for an ultimate socialist transformation, particularly in the areas of personal freedom which are not believed or understood in the PRC to be the sine qua non of economic potential, and which may not be understood to be integral to the territory's "lifestyle".
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In Beijing, I hope to discuss the situation concerning the drafting, interpretation and implementation of law in China, the relationship of the law to the process of administration, and the nature of the administrative process in general. The Beijing Review of 14-20 May 1990 reported that at the recent Beijing Conference on Law for World Peace and Development, the subject of Human Rights was on the agenda. I would be very interested to know from those involved in the Beijing conference how in general the conference went, and to learn about the contribution made to it by Chinese lawyers. Given the events in Tiananmen Square in 1989, the role of the conference as a forum for discussion about issues of human rights was viewed with considerable scepticism, to say the least, by some in the
West.
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