34.
The Chapter in the Basic Law dealing with the political structure of the SAR includes articles on the Judiciary and the Public Service. The discussion of the political system here is confined to the Executive
and the Legislature.
35.
Third paragraph of Section I of Annex 1 to the
Joint Declaration.
36.
See statements by Sir Geoffry Howe in Commons Debates,
5th December 1984, col 397, and by Lord Glenarthur, a
Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
in Lords Debates, 10th June 1988 at col 1650.
37.
"The Joint Declaration is an international agreement
and a political document; and therefore it cannot be
converted directly into domestic law. Especially important
in this regard is that the special terms used in the
document are not all within the legal lexicon and therefore
cannot all be utilized in the Basic Law": Zhang Youyu, a Deputy Chairman of the NPC Legal Committee and a member
of the BLDC.
38.
Li Hou, Secretary General of the BLDC, quoted
in the periodical Liaowang for 22th June 1987.
39.
"As a place of trade Hong Kong tends to regard
politics as best kept at arms length, as something more
likely to diminish that confidence on which business
communities everywhere depend": D.K. Lewis in 'The Prospects
for Hong Kong', Institute for the Study of Conflict Report
142 (1982). Lord Tanlaw in the House of Lords Debate
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on 10th June 1988, Lords Debates col 633 was blunter:
"Full democracy in Hong Kong at this time is simply
bad for business". See also J.Y.S. Chang, "Hong Kong:
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