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said that, while he did not personally agree with the decision to enact a BOR, he doubted that there had been any unilateral imposition. He had however heard this view expressed before within HKG. I was also given to
understand, in the course of other private conversations, that some in HKG believe that HMG decided to introduce a BOR in Hong Kong as an experimental precursor to a similar exercise in the UK! In view of all this, some record-straightening might well be timely.
Will Banett
Jill Barrett
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