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(c) the policy is politically wrong because it conflicts with the agreement between the UK and China expressed in the Joint Declaration and now also expressed in the Basic Law, both of which expressly contemplate the continued employment of foreign nationals and require the appointment and promotion or public servants to be on the basis of qualifications, experience and ability;
(d) the policy is wrong because it creates unnecessary friction between employees of different races and is thus bad for civil service morale and efficiency;
(e) the policy is short sighted and contrary to the public interest because the Government unnecessarily loses the valuable and varied experience of employees whose origin is elsewhere than Hong Kong; (f) the policy is wrong because Hong Kong people moving to other countries to which Hong Kong people commonly emigrate suffer no such employment discrimination by the Government's of those other countries;
(g) the policy is wrong because a locally born Chinese person, despite having lived overseas for much of his life, will nevertheless be accepted into Government service on local terms of service, thus making him immune from the non-renewal policy.
(13) The logical end result of the current localisation policy will be that no overseas officers will remain employed in the Civil Service. Overseas officers on permanent and pensionable terms will all eventually resign, retire or die. Overseas agreement service officers will be progressively discarded under the non-renewal policy (unless they are replaced by new overseas recruits with less experience, which makes a mockery of the policy). This systematic depletion of overseas officers would be at odds with the cosmopolitan nature of Hong Kong, and would create unease among the small, but important, portion of our community that is not Chinese. The position in the private sector is, in marked contrast, quite in keeping with Hong Kong's cosmopolitan nature.
(14) It is worth noting that we have received quiet support from individual Chinese colleagues who deplore the discriminatory basis of the policy and who feel patronized and embarrassed to benefit from the dismissal of their overseas colleagues.