caa a22 4500 388104082 CHVBK 20180307125331.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199912 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S030574100000134X doi S030574100000134X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S030574100000134X Macau: From Portuguese Autonomous Territory to Chinese Special Administrative Region [Elektronische Daten] On 13 April 1987, the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of Portugal signed a Joint Declaration on the question of Macau, agreeing that the PRC would resume the exercise of sovereignty over the territory from 20 December 1999. In the Joint Declaration, the PRC promised that the Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR) would enjoy a high degree of autonomy, except in foreign and defence affairs which are the responsibilities of Beijing, as was to be the case for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The Joint Declaration further stipulated that the government and the legislature of the Macau SAR will be composed of local inhabitants and will be vested with legislative and independent judicial power. This marked the beginning of the transition period for Macau to move from Portuguese to Chinese administration. Copyright © The China Quarterly 1999 Edmonds Richard Louis Yee Herbert S. The China Quarterly Cambridge University Press 160(1999-12), 801-817 0305-7410 160<801 1999 160 CQY https://doi.org/10.1017/S030574100000134X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S030574100000134X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Edmonds Richard Louis NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Yee Herbert S. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The China Quarterly Cambridge University Press 160(1999-12), 801-817 0305-7410 160<801 1999 160 CQY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 263267725 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge