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6 - Acts of State, Foreign Affairs, Defence

from Part II - 1997–2014

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2022

C. L. Lim
Affiliation:
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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The PRC’s foreign affairs power had, briefly, been described in the previous chapter, together with the power in the realm of defence. These powers impose together important and at times anxious limitations on Hong Kong’s autonomy, not just on Hong Kong’s external affairs and foreign treaty relations but also on the judicial function of the courts. In the ‘Twelve Points’ which became the Joint Declaration, the sixth was that Hong Kong will manage its own affairs except in defence and foreign affairs. That qualification is often forgotten or dismissed, but it cannot be so easily brushed aside.

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Treaty for a Lost City
The Sino-British Joint Declaration
, pp. 129 - 146
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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