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Summary of Objections from Dependent Territories
1(b) The Legislative and Executive Councils in Hong Kong
have expressed the fear that because the great majority
of those who would fall into the British Overseas Citizen
category live in Hong Kong, the change would be seen by
people in the territory as aimed deliberately at them.
The Governor believes that it would be interpreted in
Hong Kong, and perhaps in Peking, as a deliberate move
to weaken Britain's ties with Hong Kong, and that it would
cause undesirable speculation about the future of the
territory.
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