CHINA-HONGKONG: BASIC LAW
The Hong Kong media
reported that speaking at a seminar on April 29, 2017, Wang Zhemin, legal
chief of the central government’s liaison office in Hong Kong, said
that the “one country, two systems” policy under which Hong
Kong is guaranteed a high degree of autonomy for half a century may be scrapped
if it becomes a tool to confront Beijing. He said the
Basic Law, referred only to the capitalist system and did not mean Beijing’s
sovereignty over the city could be changed afterwards. Earlier, the outgoing
Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said the
autonomy Hong Kong was enjoying was authorised by Beijing and was not “full
autonomy”, and the careful implementation of the governing formula was the best
arrangement for both Hong Kong and the nation. |