When China and the United Kingdom began negotiating Hong Kong’s future in the 1980s, there was skepticism about what would happen to the city‘s world-renowned rule of law. （Mistrust by the international community endured after the Chinese government

When China and the United Kingdom began negotiating Hong Kong’s future in the 1980s, there was skepticism about what would happen to the city‘s world-renowned rule of law. （Mistrust by the international community endured after the Chinese government proposed the unprecedented “one country, two systems" principle.）

中国政府提出史无前例的“一国两制”方针后，国际社会依然心存疑虑。