... regional players to demonstrate invasive intentions.
Meanwhile, the international community developed a civilized way to resolve territorial disputes through diplomatic means such as long-term leasing of land, the creation of joint jurisdictions, etc. China has experience of transferring territories, for example, the 99-year lease of Hong Kong by the United Kingdom or the
recognition of Macao
as “Chinese territory under Portuguese administration” followed by the signing of the joint Declaration on the question of Macao. Since China became a successful economic power, Beijing ...
... actually promised them, since the system of electing the head of Hong Kong from candidates approved in advance by Beijing was from the very beginning written into the Basic Law of the Xianggang SAR when it was transferred from the United Kingdom to China) and to underestimate many other factors, in particular the dislike of the majority of Hong Kong people for Leung Chun-ying, the present head of the administration, the dissatisfaction with the growing presence of migrants from the mainland in Hong Kong’s economy, and so on. Incidentally, the latter factor is also fairly substantial ...
... represented a different (and totally liberal) system of political and economic relations in comparison to that which operated in the PRC itself. In other words, the principle of “One country, two systems” has effectively been implemented in China since 1997. Hong Kong was in some ways an alternative model of development. The rest of China, as we know, was successfully promoting a strategy of reforms on the basis of socialism with a Chinese flavour.
Sergey Luzyanin
From the 1990s onwards there were occasionally ...
