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strength of feeling in Hong Kong and have made every
effort to meet this.
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to satisfy Hong Kong's maximum position: the retention
of the status quo and specifically of the title 'Citizer
of the United Kingdom and Colonies'. Ministers' purpos
in the new legislation is to distinguish between
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