Hong Kong Attempting to Keep Its Semiautonomous State

Hong Kong, a former British colony, was allowed to keep its own systems in terms of politics, economics, and - most importantly here - legal after being incorporated into China. As this is highly different from the typical Chinese manner, there has been constant concern regarding the ability of Hong Kong to maintain these separate systems and therefore remain semiautonomous. From the beginning, Hong Kong has slowly lost parts of the systems to the Chinese government, most recently with Beijing overruling the Hong Kong courts. However, this discusses the new chief justice and his statements regarding not only maintaining but improving Hong Kong's legal system as separate from China.