And this is precisely the job which still needs to be done.
One thing bothers me in this context. Foreign Secretary said the following: -
In 1984, the British
"The success of this Agreement [the Joint Declaration] will depend
not only on China or the United Kingdom but to a very large extent on the people of Hong Kong and on their willingness to make it
work.
Doubtless that is true in the overall context of relations with the CPG; but in the context of some of its details, I am uneasy with the assertion that aspects of the success of the agreement depend "to a very large extent" on Hong Kong people. What, I ask, can be done by Hong Kong people on some of the issues discussed in this paper? It is this question, among others, which Parts Four and Five of this paper are intended to address.
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