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quiet way
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or in the PRC for that matter.
The students of
Hong Kong are very pragmatic - they look in terms of
finishing my degree quickly and then start to make money and
It is very
then it 1 have the chance to get out of here.
sad.
MR MICHAEL WELSH: Yes, it is very sad, actually, May I say
that the majority of people I think that I have spoken to,
nearly all are in favour of democracy, but step by step. I
think you would agree that your feeling is that if you don't
get it before 1997 you won't get it.
MR MARTIN LEE: Yes,
for the simple reason that can anybody
in his proper senses would know, or would say that he is
confident that although a communist government will not give
it to us when the British Government is still here, it will
somehow give it to us when the British Government is gone?
MR MICHAEL WELSH: Can I just ask you one other question with
regards to the democracy. In most countries, and in Britain,
when the vote came about, it was said that the poorest man
has the right to pick his political masters as the richest
man..
MR MARTIN LEE: Yes, indeed.
HR MICHAEL WELSH: why is that not so followed up in this
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