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Chinese sensitivities over matters of status and nomenclature.

owever, until 1997 we would expect the Chinese to seek to maintain their formal position over Hong Kong's status in internationl fora if, deliberately or inadvertently, this is called into question. There He orbatt of this fromanmen Square, Petting of the 1990 and the rate rational

been a recent example of them doing so.

Hong Kong Agreement

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11. An agreement on the future of Hong Kong was signed by the British and Chinese Prime Ministers on 19 December 1984. Under the terms of the Joint Declaration of the British and Chinese Governments on the future of Hong Kong which entered into force on 27 May 1985, Hong Kong will with effect from 1 July 1997 become a Special Administrative Region of the PRC with a high degree of autonomy. The Joint Declaration also recognises that until 30 June 1997, the Government of the United Kingdom with be is responsible for the administration of Hong Kong.

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