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agreement in Brussels had been explained to Hong Kong,
specific things were said on the record about improving
the terms for Hong Kong. The colony now looked to
HMG to honour these assurances. One of them was that
after entry HMG would seek to mitigate discrimination
against Hong Kong. There would be serious political
repercussions if the UK were to discriminate against
her own colony. [ff the record Sir M MacLehose added
that the question of UK preferences in Hong Kong could
come up. An example was the bus franchise where
operators were required to use British buses. At
present something between 1,000 and 1,500 new buses
were needed. He personally, however, would wish to
resist such suggestions.
tions r Royle asked if he could
let him have details of this.]
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