HIS385H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Chris Patten, Habituation, Provisional Legislative Council
Document Summary
Lecture 9: road to decolonization 1997 handover. Background : governor maclehose"s travel to beijing in 1979. Clarification of the future hong kong"s political structure through investments, loans, mortgages. Suggested status quo through china"s economic reforms. Requesting the hong kong government to question how china would ask after the release of hong kong; their contribution to help reform economy. Maclehose offered a suggestion; with china"s consent, the british could continue to reign in hong kong to continue the economic success would be used to help. Chinese response to british: 1997 handover as inevitable: capitalism will continue after 1997, one country, two systems model for hong kong: exist under republic of. China, however could continue with the existing conditions of a separate economic, politic, cultural and social system. Hong kong part of china and under chinese sovereignty. Hong kong unchanged for 50 years hereafter. Reunification of taiwan facilitate the unique features of taiwan.
