Unsurprisingly, Yan Xiaojun& #39;s interview with Martin Lee is the best of the series on the BLDC so far.
-Lee begins with 1st visits to Beijing in 1982 and 1983 when the Bar Assoc agreed that Beijing could retake sovereignty but advised leasing HK back to UK https://news.mingpao.com/pns/%e8%a7%80%e9%bb%9e/article/20200408/s00012/1586285824013">https://news.mingpao.com/pns/%e8%a...

-Lee recalls how his father, a Cantonese KMT general who studied with Zhou Enlai in Lyon, told his sons that his reason for refusing to go to Taiwan or answer Zhou& #39;s probes was the corruption of both regimes
-Colonial HK was ruled by "ghosts" but it had law and order

-Lee pushed for location of CFA in HK and inclusion of foreign judges
-Lee: Deng& #39;s rationale for “50 years w/o change" was that during this time HK should lead China to modernization, could extend 50 more yrs if China hadn& #39;t caught up.
-1c2s: like a child & an adult on a see-saw

-BL Drafting Committee had a high degree of transparency, at the insistence of Liu Yiu-chu
-after each gp meeting a press conference was held
-members objections were printed in final draft
-but Deng vetoed "separation of powers."