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revenue from Hong Kong, and Hong Kong received no aid. Her duty, which she felt deeply,
was to reach a result
acceptable to the people of Hong Kong. Britain was not a colonialist country : we had moved beyond that. Britain simply wanted to carry out her moral duty to Hong Kong. The British Government knew that in 1997 sovereignty over 92% of the territory would pass to China when the lease ended. The British Government
kept to its treaties and was not contesting the termination of
the lease.
/ Mr. Deng Xiaoping
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