Legislation for Implementing “One Country Two Systems”
摘要
This chapter reviews how the “one country two systems” principle has been translated into law since the 1980s. The 1982 Constitution empowered the NPC to create Special Administrative Regions (SARs). It details the five NPC Standing Committee interpretations of the Hong Kong Basic Law, on right of abode, political reform, chief-executive tenure, state immunity and oath-taking, showing how “NPC interpretation” resolves crises while safeguarding sovereign unity. It also tracks the selective application of 13 national legislations in Hong Kong SAR and 12 in Macao SAR via Annex III, emergency powers, and ad-hoc NPC decisions. It concludes that this legislative innovation offers a constitutional template for eventual Taiwan reunification.