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remainder and by far the greatest land area of the present territory Hey thongs of the Colony of Hong Kong) was leased to the UK in 1898 for 99 years. Chine can and has caused internal unrest in Hong Kong through its well organized sympathisers in the colony and-by creating tension on the border. Hong Kong is important to the UK financially and to China as an outlet for manufactured goods and the source of more than 40% of her foreign currency earnings. The Chinese have made it clear that at present they are content with the status quo. and-recently there has been virtually no internal disorder; nevertheless the threat of it remains.
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12. The United Kingdom has reduced the garrison in Hong Kong during 1976 to four infantry battalions (three of them Gurkha battalions), an engineer squadron, five Naval patrol craft and an RAF helicopter squadron. Under the terms of the new cost-sharing Agreement, which came into effect on 1 April 1976 for a term of seven years in the first instance, the Hong Kong Government will pay an increased share of the cost of the garrison, rising from 50 per cent in 1976/77 to 621 per cent in 1977/78 and to 75 per cent thereafter.
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