them. I have noted the most recent Chinese comment on the Nationality Act. Although this repeats their past views, it is a disappointment. The sole aim of the Act is to encourage key figures
This will benefit
in Hong Kong to stay on up to and beyond 1997. Hong Kong and China. The Chinese attitude will not detract from its effect the Joint Declaration provides for freedom of travel after 1997 and beneficiaries of the Act will know that they have a place
to go.
This must help give them the confidence to remain.
Hong Kong gives Britain a special need to do business with China.
Nor But that does not mean we approve of China's domestic policy. are we alone. Japan, for example, shares Hong Kong's interest in pushing forward Chinese modernisation · economic and eventually political. China's leadership wants progress, but fears the consequences : a recipe for turbulence. Contact, not isolation, will keep them on the right course. A democratic, prosperous Hong Kong has a vital part to play in this process.
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