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being posted to Peking.
More recently played
а
role leading
in
with the negotiations
China
which led to the agreement whereby
colony
will be restored to China in 1997, but
with the
special
status
for guaranteed
fifty
A
bag with
knighthood is automatically conferred
the appointment as Governor. On the lin
Kong, I
to Hong
Deputy
asked Philip Bowring (phonet.
Editor of the Far Eastern Economic Revie
whether
Sir
David Wilson was the man the Co
would
itself have chosen.
PHILIP BOWRING:
Partly yes and partly no.
Of
$
well
course,
known here. The fact that he
is fer
r with
China and has been deeply
negotiations for quite a long time
to some extent as a plus. On the other
are
negative aspects to that as we.
d there
involve
in
the
is seem
perhaps
seen too much as wanting to please Chi
too much sort of Britain's man in tryinz
perhaps
achieve
a smooth transfer of
power rather than
Someone