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😂.. Hong Kong would remain as it had been materially and socially for fifty years, and the PRC would be able to prevent any developments, such as democracy, that might be seen to threaten its own one-party rule. There was a promise of elections, but what these would consist of was left vague. The House of Commons could bask in the assumption that they would be on British lines, while, as a senior official was reported to have put it, "the Chinese have nothing against elections; they just rather like to know the result before voting takes place"