{"identifier":"/us/usc/t22/s5711","title":22,"num":"\u00a7\u202f5711.","heading":"Bilateral ties between United States and Hong Kong","text":"\u00a7\u202f5711.\nBilateral ties between United States and Hong Kong\nIt is the sense of the Congress that the following, which are based in part on the relevant provisions of the Joint Declaration, should be the policy of the United States with respect to its bilateral relationship with Hong Kong:\n(1) The United States should play an active role, before, on, and after\nJuly 1, 1997\n(2) The United States should actively seek to establish and expand direct bilateral ties and agreements with Hong Kong in economic, trade, financial, monetary, aviation, shipping, communications, tourism, cultural, sport, and other appropriate areas.\n(3) The United States should seek to maintain, after\nJune 30, 1997\n(4) The United States should invite Hong Kong to maintain, after\nJune 30, 1997\n(5) The United States should recognize passports and travel documents issued after\nJune 30, 1997\n(6) The resumption by the People\u2019s Republic of China of the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong after\nJune 30, 1997\n8 U.S.C. 1101","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t22/s5711.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t22/s5711","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f5711."},{"t":"heading","text":"Bilateral ties between United States and Hong Kong","tail":"\n"},{"t":"chapeau","text":"It is the sense of the Congress that the following, which are based in part on the relevant provisions of the Joint Declaration, should be the policy of the United States with respect to its bilateral relationship with Hong Kong:"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t22/s5711/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" The United States should play an active role, before, on, and after ","children":[{"t":"text","text":"July 1, 1997","tail":", in maintaining Hong Kong\u2019s confidence and prosperity, Hong Kong\u2019s role as an international financial center, and the mutually beneficial ties between the people of the United States and the people of Hong Kong."}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t22/s5711/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"content","text":" The United States should actively seek to establish and expand direct bilateral ties and agreements with Hong Kong in economic, trade, financial, monetary, aviation, shipping, communications, tourism, cultural, sport, and other appropriate areas.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t22/s5711/3","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(3)"},{"t":"content","text":" The United States should seek to maintain, after ","children":[{"t":"text","text":"June 30, 1997","tail":", the United States consulate-general in Hong Kong, together with other official and semi-official organizations, such as the United States Information Agency American Library."}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t22/s5711/4","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(4)"},{"t":"content","text":" The United States should invite Hong Kong to maintain, after ","children":[{"t":"text","text":"June 30, 1997","tail":", its official and semi-official missions in the United States, such as the Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office, the Office of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, and the Hong Kong Tourist Association. The United States should invite Hong Kong to open and maintain other official or semi-official missions to represent Hong Kong in those areas in which Hong Kong is entitled to maintain relations on its own, including economic, trade, financial, monetary, aviation, shipping, communications, tourism, cultural, and sport areas."}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t22/s5711/5","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(5)"},{"t":"content","text":" The United States should recognize passports and travel documents issued after ","children":[{"t":"text","text":"June 30, 1997","tail":", by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region."}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t22/s5711/6","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(6)"},{"t":"content","text":" The resumption by the People\u2019s Republic of China of the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong after ","children":[{"t":"text","text":"June 30, 1997","tail":", should not affect treatment of Hong Kong residents who apply for visas to visit or reside permanently in the United States, so long as such treatment is consistent with the Immigration and Nationality Act ["},{"t":"ref","text":"8 U.S.C. 1101","href":"/us/usc/t8/s1101","tail":" et seq.]."}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}