Pub. L. 102-138, tit. III, pt. C, sec. 357
POLICY TOWARD HONG KONG.
SEC. 357. POLICY TOWARD HONG KONG.It is the sense of the Congress that the United States should encourage the Government of the United Kingdom to provide the people of Hong Kong all possible civil liberties, including popular election of the territory’s Legislative Council, so that it will bequeath a fully functioning, self-governing democracy to China in 1997. 105 STAT. 715