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TRANSCRIPT A HONG KONG SELECT COMMITTEE MEETING
22 MAR 89
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FOREIGN SECRETARY (COPD):
Bong Kong is now China's largest export market.
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investment in Hong Kong is large and growing.
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I mention all that because it has two features about it.
One, it emphasises the scale of the continuing success of Hong
Kong in itself. It emphasises also the growth of the by now
massive stake that China has got in the continuing success of Hong
Kong. That is alongside our own intense interest in that sama
objective.
All that has been achieved not by confrontation but by
accepting the realities and by working hard to translate all the
implications of the Joint Declaration into a future in which we
from day-to-day, Hong Kong from day-to-day and into the future,
can make the most of the opportunities that are implicit in what
has been achieved so far.
in our
We will continue to do absolutely everything we
power in every way that we can achieve it to ensure that Hong Kong
remains a continuing success story, building on the foundations
that are already there.
CHAIRMAN:
Thank you very much indeed Sir Geoffrey.
I wonder if,
obviously we would like to question you on a whole number of these
issues that you have very clearly raised.