3.2.
He said
that if such
a
multinational insurance
policy could
be
established, extending perhaps through the end
century,
it
would give
to
of this
confidence
like to stay,
would have the opportunity to relocate.
answer tu a question he said he did not think
the
people of Hong Kong the
remain in the territory, where most of them would
knowing that if the worst came to the worst they
things
that such a policy would lead to a mass exodus from Hong Kong as
be would
happy to stay there if people
they knew they had
somewhere to go if
turned out badly after the Chinese
takeover.
the
"It might perhaps even give the authorities in
Beijing an even greater incentive to conduct themselves over
course of the next several years in a way which was sensitive to
of the people of Hong Kong knowing, as they would
that if they botched it all up when
the concerns
under those
they
circumstances,
arrived in 1997 a lot of the people who make Hong Kong go
would no longer be around."
Congressman
Solazz said
was a
Britain had the primary
in such an insurance
it but policy, responsibility
responsibility that was shared by other countries and would be
best approached in a multilateral context.
Pending an aqreement on such an arrangement, he
the United States could be helpful or its Own by
increasing the immigration opportunities for Hong Kong people.
said,
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