• No department or locality may, or will be allowed to, interfere in the affairs which should be administered by [the SAR] on its own.

    Jiang Zemin: No department or locality may, or will be allowed to, interfere in the affairs which should be administered by [the SAR] on its own.
    "Hong Kong's new leaders offer reassuring words". www.cnn.com. July 1, 1997.