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negotiating sessions in Peking to achieve the
text. Why should we, of all people, now be
trying to give it all away?
We know just how much it has meant to the
people of Hong Kong. The unprecedented
strength of investment in the colony since
1984 testifies to the renewal of confidence
there after the bleak years of 1982 and 1983.
So too does the astonishing GDP growth of over
30% in the last three years.
Monckton ignores all this. It does not fit
his thesis. Or perhaps he simply doesn't know
the facts. He certainly seems confused about
the Basic Law. This is the document that the