From The Minister of State
The Hon Francis Maude MP
E P Ho Esq 6 Lloyd Path The Peak
HONG KONG
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1A 2AH
13 July 1990
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Thank you for your letter of 23 May about the position of the Eurasian community in Hong Kong.
As you are aware we have given very careful consideration
to the position of the Eurasian Community. As I mentioned in my letter of 15 May, it is the Government's view that
if any Eurasians were not to be regarded as Chinese after
1997, the same safeguards available to other members of the non-Chinese ethnic minorities would also apply to
them. The non-Chinese ethnic minorities' right of abode
in the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong is explicitly protected in the Sino-British Joint Declaration
and the Basic Law. In addition, the Hong Kong (British
Nationality) Order 1986 already gives the ethnic minorities a further assurance by providing subsequent
children and grandchildren of those who are British