When I had just passed the bar examination and before I got the training course for one and a half years to become a legal profession, I went to Hong Kong to visit the High Court and have nice teas. I got a book titled "Judicial Independence and the Rule of Law in Hong Kong" (Hong Kong University Press 2001) there.
It reads at "Preface and Acknowledgements" by Steve Tsang:
The Crown Colony of Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) on 1 July 1997, under an unusual constitutional arrangement which the Chinese call 'one country, two systems'.
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This is a matter of great importance not only to the nearly seven million people of Hong Knog. The successful maintenance of the rule of law and judicial independence in a Chinese SAR, as distinct from a British colony, will mark the entrenching of these Anglo-Saxon concepts in a Chinese community, which despite special constitutional arrangements, falls under the jurisdiction of a Leninist party-state. It can serve as a shining model for other Chinese communities, particularly the PRC itself and Taiwan, whose cultural and legal traditions are different from those of the Anglo-Saxons.
-- These paragraphs let me know how strongly lawyers can advocate the rule of law and unite for it. They were very impressive for me just before becoming a lawyer. I admired and respected lawyers in common law world who has kept the rule of law for a very long period of time.
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