The conveyance of HK's sovereignty to China must be for the repayment of a debt. I know shortly before this, the US started to privatize Trust responsibilities, but through what I 've read here, it sounds like Her Majesty was doing the same. But that was 1992 here...executive Order 12803.
Printed copy · Anthology Volume 4, page 1173Printed copy from The Tender For Law Anthology, Volume 4, page 1173 (printed 13 June 2014). Added by this site; not part of the Facebook export.