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China has shown an interest in economic co-operation. Has she shown any interest in the administrative side or in any form of elected
representation?
A.
Q.
H.E.: No, the question was not mentioned.
On the subject of legal immigrants, will Hong Kong be making tougher
restrictions?
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H.E.: I have explained that the crux of the matter is people who come here with permits to visit relatives and actually only 2% go back. The problem is tim machinery whereby they we go back. This is not easy and
Cooperativ man be done much more casily and satisfactorily in line with the Chinese authorities. This is why I see an early discussion to work this out
essential.
Q.
A.
Did you discuss the problem of the Vietnamese refugees from China?
H.E.: This has been the subject of frequent representations by our
Embassy. The numbers have dropped a little recently.
Q.
There are still quite a number in the detention centres.
to happen to them?
What is going
Dr. Wilson: There are quite a number in the detention centres while we try to
discover where they have come from. It is extremely difficult to do so. How do you make a distinction between someone who has stopped to take on water along the coast of China and somebody who settled there? The Chinese authorities have expressed a willingness to take back people who are settled in China if this can be proved, but in most cases this cannot be proved. Come cases will have to be dealt with in some
other way.
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Q.
Are the Chinese reconciled to private commercial advantage being given
to outsiders in their modernization programme?
A.
H.E.: Certainly. The message wherever we gwent was that "We welcome
Hong Kong investment.
We need it."