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23)
One day Hong Kong will be joined to Guangzhou in what may well be the largest city in South China.
24)
By this route, combined knowledge and influence available through this contact will flow into China and out to Asia and the West thus fulfilling the prophecy I have been so bold as to make that in the next century China will provide the most powerful influence on world politics and economies.
25)
In conclusion I plead for a better understanding between the
People of the United Kingdom and of Hong Kong.
26)
Britain has a moral and very real obligation to those of its
people who wish to retain their and their children's nationality.
27)
There are those in Hong Kong who feel that the accident of birth in a British Colony entitles them not only to their name but also
their nationality.
28)
We talk of human rights but it is as well to remember that to many British Subjects you propose to remove one of those rights without their
consent. There is much resentment about the termination of transmissibility
of British Nationality for Hong Kong British Subjects. If this happens it
will create a legacy of discontent, a bitterness likely to sour Britain's
relationship for many years to come.
29)
I urge you to consider carefully and to avoid narrow and short-sighted policies. Do not rub salt in the wound.
30)
What Britian sows today so shall she reap in the future.
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