to attract and retain Chinese talent as a serious impediment to their technological ambitions and a 2009 report of Issues in Science and Technology notes that competition for [science and technology] brainpower … will become one of the key defining features of the West’s interactions with the PRC over the coming decades. (8) A major asymmetric advantage of the United States in its long-term strategic competition with the Communist Party of China is the ability of people from every country in the world, irrespective of their race, ethnicity or religion, to immigrate to the United States and become American citizens. 4. Statement of policy It is the policy of the United States— (1) to continue to reaffirm the principles and objectives set forth in the United States-Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992 ( Public Law 102–383 ), namely that— (A) the United States has a strong interest in the continued vitality, prosperity, and stability of Hong Kong