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FORRIGE SBC
EONG TONG
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PC
4 JULY 1989
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FORBIGE SECRETARY:
The burden of my speech yesterday and in my statement today starts from the premise that the trust that had been built up over the 10 years before 4 June has been very largely destroyed by what happened then and it 16 for that reason that I emphasised in my speech there and again today that that trust will have to be recreated by a whole series of actions rather than words from the Peking Government. The way in which they treat their own people
from now on will need to be transformed from what is happening. way in which they respond to the cases we make in relation to the
Basic Law will need to be very seriously examined.
But I do not begin to say that there is any single action that any Chinese leader could take that could wipe the slate clean or anything like it. It is going to be a long business and it is because of the extent to which trust has been so largely destroyed
that we need to try and build in other fortifications for the central basis of Hong Kong's defence, which is one country, two
systemc.
So that point is one of a number we have to pursue,
The
QUESTION (Miss Adie);
May I just put as a supplementary, you say it takes a long
Are you pepared to
time, there is not a long time left before 1997. give a certain number of years for this trust to be re-established?