be rid of this "inconvenience".
3
Nothing, I
can tell him, could be further from the truth.
- In the first place policy, in this field as in
others, was and is made not by some anonymous
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and thus easy to abuse body, the "Foreign
Office", but by Ministers. And if we, the
Government, had wanted simply to be rid of
Hong Kong, then nothing could have been
easier. We had only to let the nineteenth
century treaties run their course. These
required the return to China in 1997 of 92% of
the territory of Hong Kong; and the remaining
8% would, of course, have been unviable on its
own.
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