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Colony on account of the economic and
political advantages it brings them.
There
are no signs that an early renewal of the
1967 campaign of violence is likely, and the
Chinese apparently recognise that it may take
a long time to bring the Hong Kong Government
methods to subservience using the message which they
describe as "long-term struggle". Their Lare to increa
immediate aims are maximize their commercial
interests in the Colony and to concentrate
onbroadening the base of their support among
the people. This is a state of affairs
which in the best/circumstances might last
foreome years yet.
Moreover, in the meantime
a new regime may emerge in China. There
is no solid ground for believing that any such
future regime would be more accommodating.
would
But it would be wrong to assume that it will
not.
4. Nevertheless, In view of the difficulties
which/seem almost inevitable for the future,
officials in making their study were
understandably concerned to ensure that
all feasible precautions for forestalling
disaster had been considered and that no
K
opportunities had been overlooked infor
initiating polic with the Chinese that
might make the problems easier to deal with
in future. It is, I think, a reasonable
conclusion from the report that there are
no fresh initiatives that we can take in
would present circumstances that i make the
problem ofllong Kong less intractable in the
longer term . There can be no cleancut,
tidy solution to the predicament facing us.
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