TRANSCRIPT B: FORRIGE SBC
P.C.
HONG KONG
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4 JULY 1989
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FORBIGE BECRETARY (CONTD):
considering the history and pattern of representative government in
Hong Kong 60 far and paying serious attention to the opinions of people who are genuinely concerned with it, which include at least
thʊo monbaris of ORHLCÒ.
PHILIP BARING (FAR RAST BCOWONIĆ REVIEV);
that
Why is it that there is no way to quote your phrase
Britain could grant right of abode to the 3.5 million Hong Kong
people given the fact that 40 million Spaniards, 8 million Portuguese and 8 million Greeks coming from countries with standarde of living are lower than Hong Kong, with very recent records of dictatorial regines which could produce all kinds of problems in the future and people leaving and so forth, why is it that those people
are not a problem all 60 million of them but 3.5 million Bong
Kong people apparostly are?
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PORRIGE SECRETARY:
You will find that there is an interesting eat of develop-
ments taking place in the world today involving as it does the emergence of regional groupings of increasingly close political identity whereby the unchecked pattern of immigration round the world is tending to be regulated by the establishment of barriers of
You will find that one kind or another round those regional groups.