POREIGN SEC:
SPRECH
HONG KONG COMMERCE
PORBIGN SECRETARY (CURTD):
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GENERAL CHAXBER OF
15 JABUARY 1990
since then
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I have been from time to time though not for 12 years
every time I have been to Hong Kong has been an experience of
pleasure, excitement and interest and this visit is no contrast, no
different.
Then, of course, in the middle '506, Hong Kong was full of
problem: Vâu cxtraordinary onïuoi vi peupie from China; the
problems which that imposed for housing; the problems which it
imposed politically because of extreme Chinese sensitivities about
Taiwan, about the Walled City, about a whole range of mattero which
gave the Governors sleepless nights;
ups and down.
and so it has continued with
In 35 years, much has changed in that time, but the
feel of the place is different and the way in which people talk and
The skyline has changed several times over the
think is different.
last 35 years and Hong Kong has grown obviously physically but also,
ī tùini, us i have said, in the way 10 WD1
1 people think and feel.
In the last ten or twelve weeks tha
I have been Foreign
Secretary, obviously I have bad to spend the British Government
bas bad to spend
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much time on Hong Kong and so have the other
members of my team and I am thinking in particular of Francis Maude
who was here in November.
That will go on being true and there is
nothing surprising about that.