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TRAJECRIPT B SELECT COMMITTEE OF HONG KOIG 12 JUNH 1989
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BIR DAVID VILSON (CONT>:
do this is a
Vo do have to ask ourselves how
quite separate matter, we do have to ask ourselves are wa
setting up something which we have a reasonable belief is
going to go on, or not? And that surely must be a very
crucial question to ask yourself.
COMMITTÉK SPEAKER:
That, Sir David, was always behind the ideas of
seamless transition and mirror imaging. But the reality
now is that we are not even talking to the Chinese about
the draft Basic Law and curely wa have a greater
obligation as the British Government to give the people of
Hong Kong a greater say about what they are going to be
doing through 1997 which must be by greater degree of
democracy?
SIR DAVID VILSON:
I think we have to take account of the way in which
In doing political opinions in Hong Kong are changing.
this people in Hong Kong will also be looking at the
question of how they can be sure that what they are
seeking for, what was are trying to eat up,
goes on after
1997.