Introduction to Sociology and Political Sciences
Mid-term paper
Name: TO MAN FEI
Student ID: 81200158
Word count: 4337 words
Topic
Discuss the relationship between Hong Kong and mainland using concepts introduced in this course. Introduction
Hong Kong, located at the southern coastal of China, fully shows the diversification of culture, with a mix characteristics of different backgrounds.
Hong Kong is currently under the rule of the PRC as a special administrative region, with the practice of ‘One country, two system’. Hong Kong exercises capitalism under the rule of the British government and thus continues its practice after the handover. Hong Kong is closely located to mainland, showing her essential role in the economic
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In mid 2002, the Vice Premier of the State Council expressed Beijing’s desire for Hong Kong to pass the proposals as soon as possible. Then, the Tung Chee-hwa, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong began the drafting of the article, and passed it to the legislative council.
Since then, there were lots of conspiracy theory occurred, saying that Tung acted in request of the Central government, which he was forced to do so, as Tung’s family was running a shipping conglomerate Orient Oversea, which owes about US$110 million debt to the PRC in the 1980s. And Tung’s family business was still greatly affected by the decision of the central government.
Since Tung has proposed his draft, there was a huge controversy over his proposal, which raised the public concerns.
It was worried that the article violates The Johannesburg Principles on National Security, Freedom of Expression and
These effective strategies helped Hong Kong overcome the financial crisis. All these facts fully demonstrated that China is a responsible big country. After the Asia financial crisis, the importance of China's economy has been brought into focus; China's neighboring countries have begun to recognize the influence of the Renminbi.
policies. Over the years, Hong Kong has been considered the “door to China”, meaning that
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What is the tenet that China follows to ensure that Hong Kong’s exuberant capitalism is retained despite the communist leanings of mainland China?
Hong Kong and Taiwan have claimed independence from mainland China, but political concerns are arising. Since the ruling class controls the state power, China sought its own interest and define its interest as the interest of the nation-state. Liberals would argue that Tibet, Hong Kong, and Taiwan should be respected and allow them to self-govern. Even though, China wants to gain all forms of power with trying to get ahold of these countries, it will be more of a benefit to let them self-govern and try to work together. Chinese scholars began to engage the more orthodox intellectuals in the debate over china’s interest in the 1990s. Yet, according to Qin, he would argue that China was trying to establish somewhat of a liberalism concept. Qin could have this approach since China’s most important national interest was economic development and the most cost efficient way to realize that was from China to take under their power Tibet, Hong Kong, and
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