66 Marlborough Avenue GOOLE
North Humberside
DN14 6JA
26 March 1993
David Davis MP House of Commons LONDON
WC1
Dear Mr Davis
Governorship of Hong Kong
I feel an obligation to express my complete unease at the way Chris Patten is handling the administration of the impending return of Hong Kong to China.
It is quite beyond my understanding as to why he, for all his other qualities, was chosen for the post,- a post which requires an intimate knowledge of the history of China, and of the multi- tudinous factors which have shaped it's present. Without this, and with the same clear evidence of the lack of adequate advice, he will continue to make the same monumental blunders.
It is not just Hong Kong itself which needs to be considered. China is rapidly changing to a market economy, and a colossal amount of home trade and manufacturing co-operation is also being put in jeopardy; --the offered co-operation with 54 manufacturing contracts, including finance and technical assistance to Humberside, and the recent economic town twinning with Lincoln City, to mention just 2.
This opens the doors to our competitors, with doubtless trade deals against Chinese arms manufactures, and all that that implies.
To make matters far worse, the British government is now considering opening formal diplomatic relations with the government of Taiwan, --no doubt highly laudable under any other circumstances, but not with a government which has never been forgiven for it's activities prior and subsequent to the events of 1949; nor is it worth the risk to the Taiwan-Korea-Japan trading circle!
It is very apparent that our government is just as oblivious to what is happening in China, as it is to the rapidly growing unrest it's policies are instilling on it's own very streets, and into it's own people.
I would be very obliged if you would forward the enclosed copy of this letter to the Foreign Office.
Yours sincerely
By Margan
B J Morgan
Enc