Word: rule
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...yellow flag of the People's Republic rises in the glare of artificial rockets, a proud nation will wipe away the stain of shame. President Jiang Zemin himself will preside as the motherland reclaims a piece of itself, instantly replacing the councils and crown symbols of British rule with the new authority of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The Chinese feel that a historic wrong has been righted. It showed in the faces of the elderly pensioners who gathered a few weeks ago in the mainland city of Shenyang for their own humble handover ceremony. The Old People...
...signals just how hard it will be to implement Deng Xiaoping's promise of "one country, two systems" with a "high degree of autonomy." At issue for Chinese on both sides of the new internal border is not only whether Hong Kong's system of advanced capitalism under the rule of law can be grafted onto the stunted system of Chinese socialism, but how, over the long term, the motherland and the former colony cope with the new realities. For the rest of the world, only beginning to come to terms with the prospect of China as a 21st century...
Pessimists say don't believe it. The liberty-loving democrats of Hong Kong are doomed to fall victim to China's power-mad communists. Even if Beijing's intentions were good--and they're not--its authoritarian habits and dictatorial rule will not tolerate Hong Kong's freedoms for long. Hong Kong's leading democrat, Martin Lee, predicts that a free press, rule of law, the right of assembly and of political demonstrations will disappear if the people of Hong Kong and the international community fail to fight Beijing for them. Tiananmen was the "real face" of the communists, says...
...Hong Kong's survival and well-being depend more on how well Beijing lives up to the broad Western values guaranteed by the Basic Law, a kind of miniconstitution it approved along with Britain in April 1990. China's leaders put their names to a document maintaining the rule of law, an independent judiciary, civil liberties including the right to peaceful protest, a free press, continuation of the capitalist system, a separate identity in international economic bodies, local control over currency and no taxation by Beijing...
...tankman. The radical democratic group Alliance in Support of the Patriotic Democratic Movement in China, which sponsors the annual June 4 candlelight memorial that attracted almost 55,000 citizens to Victoria Park this year, shocked its moderate audience by announcing that its ambitions now extended to ending one-party rule in all of China. By virtually daring Beijing to come and get them, the alliance is entering uncharted waters. Martin Lee's mainstream democrats will continue to demonstrate gently in order to educate the public about the need to preserve and protect the rights they enjoy. Since dissent...