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Line 56: − + − The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) is headed by Chief Executive Carrie Lam, who first took office in 2017. The Election Committee that votes on the Chief Executive (CE) is made up of approximately 800 Hong Kong residents from four constituency groups: commercial, industrial, and financial interests; professionals; labor, social services, and religious interests; and the legislature, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the P.R.C. National People's Congress. +
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==Government and political conditions==
==Government and political conditions==
The political conditions in Hong Kong differ from that of the Chinese mainland due to the history of British [[colonialism]]. Hong Kong maintained a British colony for 156 years until 1997, whereby it was handed to China under the "one country, two systems" policy formulated by [[Deng Xiaoping]] and [[Margaret Thatcher]] in 1984. This policy supposedly means that [[classical liberal]] freedoms such as the [[rule of law]], [[freedom of speech]], [[economic freedom]].
The political conditions in Hong Kong formerly differed from that of the Chinese mainland due to the history of British [[colonialism]]. Hong Kong maintained a British colony for 156 years until 1997, whereby it was handed to China under the "one country, two systems" policy formulated by [[Deng Xiaoping]] and [[Margaret Thatcher]] in 1984. This policy supposedly means that [[classical liberal]] freedoms such as the [[rule of law]], [[freedom of speech]], [[economic freedom]].
In 2020 the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) was headed by Chief Executive Carrie Lam, who first took office in 2017. The Election Committee that votes on the Chief Executive (CE) is made up of approximately 800 Hong Kong residents from four constituency groups: commercial, industrial, and financial interests; professionals; labor, social services, and religious interests; and the legislature, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the P.R.C. National People's Congress.
[[File:Government House Hong Kong.jpg|thumb|left|360px|Government House.]]
[[File:Government House Hong Kong.jpg|thumb|left|360px|Government House.]]