On September 7, a spokesperson for the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council said that the claim that the political system of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) is based on “separation of powers” is false and must be corrected.
The Hong Kong government’s controversial decision to remove from Hong Kong’s general education textbooks that the political system of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) belongs to the “separation of powers” has been reported by Hong Kong and Chinese media. Beijing on Monday expressed support for the Hong Kong government’s decision to remove the reference to the separation of powers from the textbook.
A spokesman for the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office said that according to the Constitution and the Basic Law, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is a local administrative region directly under the Central People’s Government, and in terms of the attributes and positioning of its political system, it is a local political system, and it is impossible to implement the “separation of powers” based on the integrity of the power of a sovereign state. The “separation of powers” has never existed in Hong Kong either.
The spokesman added that the real intention of some people in Hong Kong who advocate “separation of powers” is to expand the legislative and judicial powers, undermine the governing authority of the Chief Executive and the SAR government, and resist the central government’s full control over Hong Kong, thereby challenging the constitutional order of the SAR and turning Hong Kong into an independent political entity separate from the central government.
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