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SIR ROBIN DAY
BERNARD LEVIN
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do have a right to calculate our own interests in these equations and I am not absolutely sure to tell you frankly that it is really in our interests to
perpetuate for ever our responsibilities in Hong Kong, although I think there
ought to be à British link there.
Bernard Levin, with particular regard to our obligations to the people of Hong
Kong.
Well I think our first obligation to the people of Hong Kong that George Walden talked about, the prosperity and that is of course important and the Chinese
themselves do seem to be siezed with its importance, but I think there is a much
greater priority than that. I think that since we do have to give Hong Kong back to the Chinese in 1997, nobody disputes that, I think our first obligation is to make sure that the people of Hong Kong who are British protected persons, it is a Crown colony, are not handed over
a totalitarian state against their
will.
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Now we cannot stop the Chinese taking it, indeed we shouldn't because there is a treaty and we have to abide by it.
In that case we must enable those who
do not want to live under such a country - and incidentally a very substantial