Contributos para um entendimento sobre a transferência da administração em Macau

Abstract

This study examines the Portuguese strategy for the settlement of the Macao question with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) during the 1984-1987 Sino-Portuguese negotiations. The first section presents an overview of the Sino-Portuguese prenegotiation activity that started in November 1984 with President Li Xiannian’s visit to Portugal and ended in June 1986 with the first plenary meeting of the Portuguese and Chinese delegations, which set the basis for the process of negotiation. The second section analyses the formula for the settlement of the Macao question that was decided between the second plenary meeting, in September 1986, and the signature of the Joint Declaration on the Macao Question, in April 1987. The third section analyses details of the negotiations, i.e., the offers and demands made by Portugal and the PRC, the concessions that both made and obtained, and the convergence that eventually brought the negotiation process to an end.