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Business with China

Series Editor: Kerry Brown

The titles in this series explore the complex relationship between Chinese society and Chinas global economic role. Exploring a wide range of issues from the legal system to class, from investment to finance the series challenges the view of a country enclosed in on itself, and shows how the decisions made by Chinese consumers, the economic and political choices made by its government, and the fiscal policies followed by its bankers are impacting on the rest of the world.

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Chinas Hong Kong

Tim Summers

The Future of UKChina Relations

Kerry Brown

Tim Summers 2019

This book is copyright under the Berne Convention.

No reproduction without permission.

All rights reserved.

First published in 2019 by Agenda Publishing

Agenda Publishing Limited

The Core

Bath Lane

Newcastle Helix

Newcastle upon Tyne

NE4 5TF

www.agendapub.com

ISBN 978-1-78821-068-3 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-78821-069-0 (paperback)

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Typeset by JS Typesetting Ltd, Porthcawl, Mid Glamorgan

Printed and bound in the UK by TJ International

To Lucy and George

Contents

This book makes occasional use of Chinese characters. I use the traditional full-form version of Chinese characters dominant in Hong Kong rather than the short form in use in mainland China. As is common practice in writing about China, I follow these in the text with the standard Putonghua (or Mandarin Chinese) romanization, known most commonly as pinyin. However on a couple of occasions where the phrases are more particular to Hong Kong or to Cantonese I have chosen to use instead the Yale romanization for Cantonese (without diacritical marks which indicate intonation), to reflect the way that these characters are spoken by most people in Hong Kong. These usages are marked [Cant.].

Many people in Hong Kong have adopted non-Chinese names for use in English, or write their names using initials with the surname second (C. K. Wong or Lucy Chan, for example), and I tend to follow that practice when talking about people from Hong Kong. However, when referring to Chinese officials such as Xi Jinping, I follow the practice elsewhere in China that the surname comes first, including in English. For non-Cantonese Chinese names I use the contemporary pinyin spelling, with the exception of historical figures and references, such as Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party), where I adopt the more common versions in English.

The book uses US dollars to refer to economic indicators. Where these are converted from source data in Hong Kong dollars this is done at a rate of US$1 = HK$7.80, reflecting the peg put in place in 1983. Amounts in renminbi or RMB (Chinas currency) have been converted using average exchange rates for the year in question. Tables in outline some economic data, in particular gross domestic product (GDP) taken from data published in 2018. In the text most of the references to annual rates of growth in GDP are to figures published at the time, rather than to the revised figures using current prices indicated in the tables. I hope that any inconsistency is minimal and does not detract from the key arguments of the book.

Basic Law	The mini constitution promulgated in 1990, which outlines in Chinese law the arrangements for the governance of Hong Kong
CCP or CPC	Chinese Communist Party or Communist Party of China
Chief Executive	Head of the Hong Kong SAR and its government
Court of Final Appeal (CFA) CPGLO	The highest court in the Hong Kong SAR Central Peoples Government Liaison Office, the representative office of the central (national-level) authorities in Hong Kong which houses both Communist Party and central government representatives
Executive Council	Body which advises the chief executive on policy issues, consisting of political and business figures
FCO	Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the foreign ministry of the United Kingdom (UK)
Joint Declaration	Agreement, signed in 1984, between the UK and China on the handover of Hong Kong
Legislative Council (LegCo) MFA	Hong Kongs legislative body Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China
NPC & NPCSC	National Peoples Congress, the highest state institution and legislature of the PRC, and NPC Standing Committee
One country, two systems	The principle under which Hong Kong operates as a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the PRC
PRC	Peoples Republic of China
SAR	Special Administrative Region, the status Hong Kong and Macao enjoy in the PRC political system

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the Peoples Republic of China

In 1997, some 156 years after being taken as part of the spoils of the first Sino-British Opium War, the British colony of Hong Kong was handed over to the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). What seemed like the closing of the final chapter of the British Empire sparked attention from around the world. For the Chinese leadership and much of the population this was symbolic of their countrys gradual return to its historical position as a major power. But for Hong Kong and its people, a somewhat uncertain future lay ahead.

The handover followed more than 15 years of Sino-British negotiations, a process which had resulted in commitments that Hong Kong would continue to enjoy the main features of its existing system under Chinese sovereignty. This was the one country, two systems framework under which Hong Kong was established as the PRCs first Special Administrative Region (SAR) on 1 July 1997.

After the handover, global interest in Hong Kong waned. That changed in the autumn of 2014, when Hong Kongs Occupy movement erupted, with protestors camped out on the streets of Hong Kongs central business district for 79 days, amidst intense debates about changes to the way the citys leader would be selected. Massive protests in June 2019 have again cast attention on developments in the city. Hong Kongs politics and its future have returned to the spotlight.

Growing interest in Hong Kong has not just been fuelled by protests. Since 1997 the rise of China has proceeded apace as its economy overtook that of Japan in 2010 to become second in size only to the United States. The extent and pace of this rise and Chinas integration into the global economy had not been fully expected back in 1997 and has prompted growing debate and uncertainty about the intentions of the Chinese leadership and the impact on the rest of the world of China as a major power. Hong Kongs experience offers some insights into the consequences of this new Chinese power and influence. For China watchers and policy makers, the past few years have seen Hong Kong return to the agenda in discussions about Chinas global future.

Hong Kongs story has always been a global one, and part of the development of modern China too, as many scholars have argued. But the nature of global influence on Hong Kong has changed, from British-dominated colonialism when Britain was still a power to be reckoned with in Asia, through Hong Kongs growing importance to the United States in the context of the Cold War, to something more cosmopolitan but very much reflecting the post-Cold War consensus around liberal models of development under the banner of globalization.

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