TRANSCRIPT A SELECT COKKITTER ON BONG KONG 12 JUTA 1989
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MR IVAN LAVRENCE (COFT);
going to have to rescue themselves from the total pariah
status that they have now sunk as a result of this
behaviour, to a level of acceptability by the Vestern
world and in a senge are they not therefore more
vulnerable to our demands than they might have been when
they had enjoyed a higher status before thees terrible
evente?
In other words, it is going to be so important for
them to rescue Hong Kong's status in their mind and in the
Hong Kong people's minds as the financial centre, the
Special Administrative Region, which has so much not only
an economic future for China but also political future for
that they may be prepared to make concessions that
they have hitherto not been prepared to make. Do you gaa
that as a possible silver lining to come out of this?
China,
SIR DAVID VILSON:
Looked at strictly from a Hong Kong point of view,
there is no doubt at all that what has happened in China
has done great damage to confidence in the arrangements
about the future, confidence in the arrangemante which are
something to which Britain and China are both committed,
both wish to aao a success for.