Sovereignty, autonomy, and reunification
Basic Laws, reunification policy, Hong Kong and Macau practice, Taiwan white papers, national security, and autonomy.
One country, two systems is both a constitutional arrangement and an international-order argument: it links sovereignty, autonomy, treaty transition, national security, and the PRC's preferred framework for Taiwan reunification.
中华人民共和国香港特别行政区基本法
Constitutional instrument for Hong Kong's post-1997 legal order under Chinese sovereignty.
Central for debates over sovereignty, autonomy, treaty continuity, and judicial authority.
Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (adopted 4 April 1990).
中华人民共和国澳门特别行政区基本法
Constitutional instrument for Macau's post-1999 legal order under Chinese sovereignty.
Provides the Macau counterpart to the Hong Kong Basic Law and a comparison point for SAR autonomy.
Basic Law of the Macao Special Administrative Region (adopted 31 March 1993).
台湾问题与新时代中国统一事业
Recent PRC white paper on Taiwan policy and reunification.
Shows updated official framing of sovereignty, national rejuvenation, and peaceful reunification.
State Council Information Office, 'The Taiwan Question and China's Reunification in the New Era' (10 August 2022).
Legal practice central to sovereignty, autonomy, sanctions, and non-interference debates.
Legal practice central to sovereignty, autonomy, sanctions, and non-interference debates.
National People's Congress, 'Law on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong SAR' (2020-06-30).
反分裂国家法
PRC legislation concerning Taiwan, peaceful reunification, and conditions for non-peaceful means.
Key text for linking sovereignty claims with PRC positions on force and domestic legal authorization.
Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China (adopted 14 March 2005).
The Macau SAR constitutional framework is adopted before the 1999 handover.
One country, two systems becomes a major sovereignty and legal-order issue.
Macau becomes the second SAR governed under one country, two systems.
Domestic legislation links Taiwan policy, sovereignty, and possible force.
The State Council presents an official interpretation of central authority and Hong Kong autonomy.
National security becomes a central controversy in the legal meaning of one country, two systems.
Danny Gittings, 'Introduction to the Hong Kong Basic Law' (2016).
Launch bibliography item for Hong Kong Basic Law and autonomy research.Albert H Y Chen, 'The Changing Legal Orders in Hong Kong and China' (2021).
Launch bibliography item for legal change under one country, two systems.Phil C W Chan, 'China, State Sovereignty and International Legal Order' (2015).
Launch bibliography item for scholarly review and expansion.