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I expressed my surprise at hearing
this as, I said, I had assumed that any
step of this nature would be welcomed by
China as a step towards the eventual
reunion of Hong Kong with China - the
leased territories would have to be
returned to China in any case in 1997, or
thereabouts. The Premier replied with an
emphatic negative. China wished, he
repeated, for no change at all."
(b) With a letter dated 28 November 1960
Mr MacLehose (who was then Political
Adviser in Hong Kong) sent a police
report which contained the following
Extract
tract from a Statement made on
29 October 1960 by Liu Shing Chi,
Chairman of
Array
Overseas Chinese Affairs
Commission, in discussion with a party of
Hong Kong trade union officials and
representatives who were visiting Peking
he statement was made with reference to
The
a point raised about "self-government" in
the New Territories as proposed by the
Americans - ans)-
"American imperialism is our
dreadful enemy and there is no doubt that
the British do not like this proposal.
If the work in educating and bringing
compatriots in the New Territories into
unity were properly done, the American
imperialists would never succeed.
Should the proposal come from the British
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/it would
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