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I hope I have given you some food for thought on a number of not necessarily fully related subjects. Let me just summarise by again.
stating my principal beliefs :-
1) I think Hong Kong has a role to play for much longer than the next
16 years provided we are all aware of our responsibilities to try and maintain a progressive, socially stable and economically prosperous environment in the territory;
2) I believe not only in the excellence but in the wisdom of the Hong Kong
Government, albeit non-elected, to pursue a course of pragmatic and liberal economic policies and to continue to recognise the needs of a more sophisticated urban population;
3)I believe that as time goes on there will be more effort in other countries
to imitate the example of Hong Kong, and while I am conscious that one cannot easily transplant the totality of factors which augur sucess, a good case can be made for the possibility of exporting some of the ingredients of Hong Kong's achievements. As a result, I believe that Hong Kong interests must and will expand further internationally by direct acquisitions and participations, in both developed and developing countries, and that they will fight for the right to do so whenever obstacles are put in the way;
4)And finally, I also believe in the logic of freedom for shipping, as
well as in ultimate acceptance thereof by its present-day critics.
With these statements of personal belief let me end my talk and
thank your President once more for this opportunity of speaking here.
Thank you very much.
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