Unsurprisingly, Yan Xiaojun'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

-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'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'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'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."