Book contents
- Reviews
- Treaty for a Lost City
- Treaty for a Lost City
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Provisions in the Joint Declaration and the Basic Law of the Hong Kong S.A.R.
- Part I 1982–1997
- Introduction to Part I
- 1 Negotiations Commence
- 2 The Joint Declaration
- 3 Twilight of Colonial Rule, Democratic Reform, the Basic Law and Bill of Rights: 1984–1997
- Part II 1997–2014
- Part III 2014–2021
- Book part
- Index
1 - Negotiations Commence
from Part I - 1982–1997
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2022
- Reviews
- Treaty for a Lost City
- Treaty for a Lost City
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Provisions in the Joint Declaration and the Basic Law of the Hong Kong S.A.R.
- Part I 1982–1997
- Introduction to Part I
- 1 Negotiations Commence
- 2 The Joint Declaration
- 3 Twilight of Colonial Rule, Democratic Reform, the Basic Law and Bill of Rights: 1984–1997
- Part II 1997–2014
- Part III 2014–2021
- Book part
- Index
Summary
The PRC appears to hold the Joint Declaration which it does treat as a valid treaty to have become fully executed, meaning that all its terms have been performed. Hong Kong has been handed over and much of the substance of the document is to be found in its first annex (Annex I) which is – and the PRC emphasises this aspect – entitled an ‘Elaboration by the Government of the People's Republic of China of its basic policies regarding Hong Kong’. The UK takes a different view, treating as substantive treaty commitments the PRC’s (own) elaboration of Chinese policies in the third paragraph and in Annex I. The roots of this controversy run deep and have their origin in the treaty negotiations.
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- Treaty for a Lost CityThe Sino-British Joint Declaration, pp. 5 - 25Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022