The New Constitutional Disorder: The Unlawful Application of Mainland Chinese Law to Hong Kong
Bibliographic record
Abstract
High-speed rail has arrived in Hong Kong, but so has the law and exclusive jurisdiction of Mainland China. The People’s Republic of China (“PRC”) and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (“HKSAR”) have established a “Co-Location Arrangement” at the Hong Kong terminus of the new high-speed rail line. Touted as just another immigration pre-clearance arrangement, similar to the UK-France/Belgium juxtaposed controls and the US-Canada clearance agreements, the Co-Location Arrangement goes much further. It is an unparalleled attempt to dis-apply Hong Kong law from part of Hong Kong territory,disable the jurisdiction of Hong Kong institutions over the area, and transfer them to Mainland China. As a result, this part of Hong Kong territory is now ostensibly under the law and exclusive jurisdiction, not of Hong Kong, but of Mainland China. This unprecedented arrangement seriously undermines Hong Kong’s constitution on multiple fronts, potentially violates the PRC Constitution, and gravely erodes the rule of law in the region. It plunges Hong Kong into a new era of constitutional disorder.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.021 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".